Corps Étranger

The placard said it was about surveillance,

but standing in the white cylinder,

watching the colonoscopy video

projected at my feet

tunneling squeamishly through

the pale yellow ripples of intestine,

one Palestinian inside

the asshole of another

in the Hamburger Bahnhof, I thought,

What does this have to do with Palestine?

I understood better after

living across the hill from settlers.