How bout some rap
Posted on 07/17/2005 12:44:23 PM PDT by SmithL
Peshawar, Pakistan -- During three years in Guantanamo Bay, Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost says that poetry kept him from losing his sanity. By the time of his release this spring, he had written more than 25,000 lines in his Cuban prison cell.
During the first year of his imprisonment, the 44-year-old Afghan prisoner didn't even have paper or a pen. Instead, he scratched lines of verse with his fingernail into Styrofoam cups.
One poem reads: "Just as the heart beats in the darkness of the body, so I, despite this cage, continue to beat with life. Those who have no courage or honor consider themselves free, but they are slaves. I am flying on the wings of thought, and so, even in this cage, I know a greater freedom."
"Poetry was our support and psychological uplift," said his brother and fellow Guantanamo inmate, Badruzamman Badr, in an interview at the family home in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, where they have lived as expatriates since 1975. "Many people have lost their minds there. I know 40 or 50 prisoners who are mad. But we took refuge in our minds."
Dost was already a respected religious scholar, poet, journalist and author of 19 published books before his arrest about a month after the Sept. 11 attacks. His prison writings would significantly increase that number, he said.
Along with thousands of poems in his native Pashto, he completed a book intended for future poets with an alphabetical list of all the rhymes in the Pashto language. He also wrote a book of Islamic jurisprudence in verse form and translated Arabic poetry into Pashto.
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Maybe in Pashto there really is a word that rhymes with orange!
Just as the virus gnaws at the essence of life, so I, despite this prison, continue to draw life from everything I touch. Those who have no courage or honor -- like my roomates and I -- consider themselves noble, but they are maggots. I am deluded on the wings of simplistic rapture and so, even in this prison, I know diddly squat.
My roomates wearin' panties
he says they feelin good
the sol-juzz think they make him talk
but he says they give him wood.
Don't speak too soon. This is just the sort of crap the Nobel folks love to give awards for.
Maybe in Pashto there really is a word that rhymes with orange!
I think it's somewhere between "death to the great satan" and
"zionist kufar".
Great post, but you should've included a BARF ALERT in the title ;)
You win, thread's over...
The man's a Shakespeare! ;) Love it!
Wow.
Gitmo poetry sucks just as bad as regular poetry.
Who'da thought?
"...so I will kill you all if I ever get out of this place."
Come, now, you're leaving out the best parts!
The poem is actually titled "Images," and the author (as played by Eddie Murphy) is named Tyrone Green.
Dark and lonely on a summer's night.
Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord.
Watchdog barking. Do he bite?
Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord.
Slip in his window. Break his neck.
Then his house I start to wreck.
Got no reason. What the heck?
Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord.
C-I-L my landlord!
Thanks for posting the whole poem. Truly a masterpiece.
It gives one goosebumps, no?
Wow. Just . . . wow. The beauty.
Here I sit
All broken-hearted
Tried to kill the Infidel
But only farted.
____
Little Ahmed Horner
Sat in a corner
Eating his Ramadan pie
He put in his thumb
and pulled out a plum
and shouted "DEATH TO THE INFIDELS!!"
____
Haiku for Islamic Extremists:
Memories of my long absent lover
Short brown hair
Baaaah! Baaaah!
There once was an Afhan at Gitmo
Who was a no good Islamofacist mo-fo
He scratched out a poem
And wished he was home
So he could behead and defile all the stupid Liberal morons who feel sorry for his worthless a$$
Make that: "Afghan at Gitmo"
How bout some rap
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