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Poem: 'The Genesis of Torture'

E. Ethelbert Miller | June 15, 2009

Editor: Melissa Tuckey

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In the beginning
we will all wear black hoods

Our faces will be hidden from history
Someone will tie a cruel footnote to our genitals

It might be our neighbor
disguised as God

E. Ethelbert Miller is an award-winning poet, director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University, board chairperson of the Institute for Policy Studies, and contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus. His interviews are a regular feature of Fiesta.

 

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E. Ethelbert Miller, "Poem: 'The Genesis of Torture,'" (Washington, DC: Foreign Policy In Focus, June 15, 2009).

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