hay(na)ku politics

**In the news, Verdonk says Hirshi Ali was never truly a Netherlander because she presented false documents and her passport is not issued under her true name. In parliament, her colleagues question Verdonk's statement. Worth noting as in previous cases, they have been adamant, unbending to the rule of evicting anyone who has gained citizenship under false documentation. Hirshi Ali has always been open about her "lies". Verdonk is adamant, the law is the law, the law does not bend, does not make allowances, under the law everyone is equal. How much equality the law really lends remains to be seen, as this drama plays itself out in The Hague.**


Hay(na)ku politics

Verdonk
is unbending
in her resolve

recht door zee
she calls
herself

she holds true
to her
word

she is unfaltering
in her
decisions

Law
is an
iron clad woman

Verdonk’s
bulwark in
her desperate need.

the law is
as it
is

the public changes
face again
again

once
she was
the public’s hero

now
she becomes
the public’s scapegoat

the law is
immoveable as
stone

sentencing
Ayaan – Verdonk
to certain death.

**I question then whether the rightness of an intolerant law. Watching proceedings, hearing those questions repeated over and over again, I found myself thinking...but how can the law not apply to everyone? The law is inhuman, it does not make allowances for emotions, it does not consider what sort of image it leaves behind. It is only concerned with being. In this, Verdonk embodies the immoveability of the law...this rigidity of it is as it is.**

Tuesday in The Hague

Launches
into a
diatribe against intolerance.

Against
these laws,
we cry injustice.

Shame
in city
streets of Amsterdam

bow
your head
low and weep

Ayaan,
a battlecry,
Ayaan Hirshi Ali.

Were they deceived
or did
they

close
their eyes
to this lie?

Convenience then, is
now no
more.

The law knows
no saving
grace

it
is written
so it is.