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Fragment Based on a News Story

A young Israeli found a pocket-sized tablet
depicting the torture by a Canaanite guard
of his captive, a chap with hands tied
behind his back, naked and frail as earliest man.
 
In the desert, near the Gaza strip,
this little tableaux and monument of Pain,
that oldest and most feared of Gods,
was plucked by child's hands
like the current generation's inheritance
of what's been passed on
since we first saw ourselves
and consciousness was born.
 
Source of picture: "EMIL ALADJEM/ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES", published at https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/six-year-old-finds-ancient-tablet-that-depicts-torture-d7h8tfbc3 on 01/06/20
Written by The_Silly_Sibyl (Jack Thomas)
Published | Edited 3rd Jun 2020
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