Poem: ‘The Genesis of Torture’

On the issue of torture, what goes around comes around.

June 15, 2009
E. Ethelbert Miller, Melissa Tuckey

In the beginning
we will all wear black hoods

Our faces will be hidden from history
Someone will tie a cruel footnote to our genitals

It might be our neighbor
disguised as God

E. Ethelbert Miller is an award-winning poet, director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University, board chairperson of the Institute for Policy Studies, and contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus. His interviews are a regular feature of Fiesta.

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