Jul 16, 2014
In these Times - Eater of Death - Shailjah Patel
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And finally I saw the savagery of a people who would gloat over those they kill, who would take the limbs, eyes, sanity of their victims before execution. I cried out to the shelter roof, dark as a coffin: Have they no mothers no children in America?
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Their names will not be remembered, they are not American. Museums will not hold their relics, they are not American. No other mother’s children will be slaughtered in their memory, they are not American.
But I? I have eaten from the bowels of hell, chewed and swallowed the fragments of my children and now – do you see? I am no longer human.
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Eater of Death
