Soma (15.07.12, Tel Aviv)
Yesterday, a man
set himself on fire
having been
pushed and peddled
into a matchstick.
Today, we remember
this man and light
a fire to his stalk.
Peddled for poetry
Peddled for porn
Peddled for scorn,
his fumes are pushed
and rise like an opiate
to our political noses,
in the haze
forgetting that man
a man, set himself on fire.