What a Question!

I met her on my way to Madame Tussauds;
A smiling face with waxy looks.
"Are you Spanish?" I asked,
"I am an open-minded girl,
With no political convictions" she said.
"Are you Danish?"
"A Jew, an American Jew, And you?"
"I am Palestinian, an Arab Palestinian From Palestine".
"And where is that?"
"An Arab land between the River Jordan And the Mediterranean". "
How far is it from Israel?"
"What a question!
Fifty years Greenwich Mean Time!
And zero seconds my time!"

Majeed Al Barghouthi
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