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From Brooklyn by the way
of Palestine, Ms. Suheir Hammad.

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Thank you guys so much.

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I will not dance to your
war drum.

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I will not lend my soul
nor my bones to your war drum.

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I will not dance
to your beating.

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I know that beat.

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It is lifeless.

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I know intimately that
skin you are hitting.

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It was alive once hunted stolen
stretched.

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I will not dance to your
drummed up war.

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I will not pop spin break for
you.

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I will not hate for you
or even hate you.

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I will not kill for you.

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Especially I will not die for
you.

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I will not mourn the dead with
murder nor suicide.

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I will not side with you
or dance to bombs because

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everyone is dancing.

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Everyone can be wrong.

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Life is a right not collateral
or casual.

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I will not forget where
I come from.

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I will craft my own drum.

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Gather my beloved near and our
chanting will be dancing.

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Our humming will
be drumming.

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I will not be played.

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I will not lend my name
nor my rhythm to your beat.

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I will dance and resist
and dance and persist and dance.

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This heartbeat is louder than
death.

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Your war drum ain't louder than
this breath.