‘dʒoʊz 🌙 [jose]

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they/them, tangata tiriti solidarity with tino rangatiratanga.

Image of mayhem literary journal issue 11, 2024: a black book with yellow writing, with a central image of the NZ $2 coin overlayed on the face of a retro television, over a collage of frogs, traffic cones, lambs, kowhai flowers, lavender, a kawakawa leaf, an image of the moon, a banded snake and a sculpture of clasped hands.
Running Orders BY LENA KHALAF TUFFAHA They call us now, before they drop the bombs. The phone rings and someone who knows my first name calls and says in perfect Arabic “This is David.” And in my stupor of sonic booms and glass-shattering symphonies still smashing around in my head I think, Do I know any Davids in Gaza? They call us now to say Run. You have 58 seconds from the end of this message. Your house is next. They think of it as some kind of war-time courtesy. It doesn’t matter that there is nowhere to run to. It means nothing that the borders are closed and your papers are worthless and mark you only for a life sentence in this prison by the sea and the alleyways are narrow