As conditions worsen on Animal Farm, we start to see how cycles of oppression replicate. This poem is a poignant reminder of how sometimes we can fail to see how our actions might contradict our own values. We discussed how Joudah, a Palestinian-American poet, might have felt after this encounter with his daughter.
Mimesis
Fady
Joudah
My daughter
Wouldn't hurt a spider
That had nested
Between her bicycle
handles
For two weeks
She waited
Until it left of its own
accord
If you tear down the web I
said
It will simply know
This isn't a place to call
home
And you'd get to go biking
She said that's how others
Become refugees isn't it?
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