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30 Postmodern Ekphrasis Ghazal Behind typical Persian images The artist screens CNN images. How they pierce the Orientalist gaze, The cut and bruised olive-skin images. Defiant Mousavi posts “not by the hair of my chinny chin chin” images. Since the big crackdown, we’re all wondering What happened?Where have you been, images? When I saw people die, I gave up porn To obsess on these new sin images. Khamenei and Khomeini for theWest Create identical twin images. You’re in cameras while bullets are in guns. How can you possibly win, images? My family recalls ’79 And those killing of our kin images. Ever prescient Bob Dylan foretold Iran’s new blown-in-the-wind images. I click throughout the world for real answers, I get this reply again: images. ...

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