Kaamila Mohamed
Code Orange
We have received word in the free world
of a new threat to humankind:
Muslims and vampires
combined!
Welcome to the new
war on terror
as we are faced with a global jihad
aimed at our jugular veins
hoping to suck our blood dry
and shariah law apply!
They transform our children
and oppress our women.
I think we're all nervous when we see Muslim-vampire garb
those turbans and cloaks
they could be hiding bombs, or worse!
Be wary of burqas and beards
that could conceal
fangs
as well as Transylvanian accents
and Arab names.
Do you know someone who shuns both pork and garlic?
They are among us!
Building mosques in the neighborhoods of middle America
they pray five times a day
but by night
they build bombs and sharpen fangs- to fight!
We must take a stand against the Islamic vampiric threat
with security of mirrors and stakes
and preemptive strikes on Middle Eastern states.
Now that Osama and Dracula have combined forces,
we must face this axis of evil.
We have entered Code Orange!
Code Orange
Poems printed on paper mounted onto 4ft x 4ft boards
Photo Credit: Chani Bockwinkel
biography
Kaamila Mohamed (they/she) has been involved in the LGBTQ Muslim community as a founder and leader of Queer Muslims of Boston, as a Steering Committee member of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity, and in various roles at MASGD’s annual retreats for LGBTQ Muslims. She has worked professionally and in her communities in roles including organizational leader, youth worker, theater practitioner, facilitator, and speaker. Currently, Kaamila serves as a psychotherapist in the Philadelphia area. Central to all of their work is community building, expressive practices, and liberatory healing. As part of her self care, she enjoys genderfluid femmeboi fashion, speculative fiction, and the company of her two black cats.
Poems printed on paper mounted onto 4ft x 4ft boards
Photo Credit: Chani Bockwinkel