The nutritional value of a bullet

by David RL Moore

Tuesday 1st July 2025 3:29 pm

It's a cure for famine; it's a cure for hunger.

See the hordes with pangs of pain, their empty bowls

gleaming in Sunlight...

A snipers dream, the willing victim, hands raised in

expectation. That little pill in metal jacket, the last supper of the

condemned...

A million meals with leaden supplement. Yes, walk toward

the mirage of your salvation. Collect for all the family, there's plenty

here for everyone...

You'll never hunger or thirst again. Come to heaven, the kind that

lies beyond a hell. Come feed from the hand that bites you, come and taste

the nutritional value of a bullet.

You'll never hunger or thirst again...

Amen...

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David RL Moore

Wed 2nd Jul 2025 09:11

Many thanks to RBK, Graham, Tom, Cryptid and Holden for the likes.

I have done some background on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, their short history makes for interesting reading. Many of it's personnel having come from military backgrounds of multiple nations, primarily the US and UK.

I am very interested in the recruitment of those they have engaged as armed security guards. I have a suspicion that there may well be a level of collusion between these entities and the IDF when it comes to the killing of those arriving to collect aid.

I would very much like to know what the orders of engagement are for the armed civilian contractors upon Palestinians. Where their weapons are sourced and which authority licences them. Historically foreigners cannot operate inside Gaza without licence from Israeli authorities. In that regard, conditions of use have to be agreed upon before the issuing of licence...I wonder what they are? I suspect it's just the wild west out there atm.

As an aside, although I was once a "fighting man" I am sickened to my stomach when I hear civilians chanting for the death of anyone, whether that be the IDF collectively or Hamas. What repulses me more that anything about such careless incitement is that those doing so would be the least likely to commit the act themselves, rather expecting someone else to bloody their hands on their behalf.

Things are far more complex than calling for the death of those representing an organisation, nation or religious grouping. Those within such collectives remain individual human beings with independent identities. It's far too easy to call for death to those who can be branded collectively. Let us not forget where such rhetoric has led us before.

David RL Moore

Thank's to RBK, Graham and John for taking time to comment, much appreciated.

John Marks

Tue 1st Jul 2025 22:23

Challenging, as ever, David.

“international community”—a technical term referring to the U.S. government and whoever goes along with it.”
― Noam Chomsk

Graham Sherwood

Tue 1st Jul 2025 17:32

For obvious reasons David, I’ve still got Neil Young growling in my ears and I can hear him reciting this too!!
As usual (sometimes) you make us feel really uncomfortable. Good on yer!!

Red Brick Keshner

Tue 1st Jul 2025 10:50

This is a haunting, visceral meditation on violence cloaked as salvation where each line burns with a grim irony that’s impossible to ignore. The metaphor of a bullet as sustenance is searing, a brutal indictment of how suffering and death are sometimes dressed in the garb of deliverance. It’s powerful, unsettling, and deeply human in its raw confrontation of despair and of art that demands reflection, not comfort. 🌷🕊️🙏🏻RBK

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