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It is said we use humor to cope, to experience a sense of relief and so on. I could cite Freud but my grandmother said it more eloquently "if we don't laugh, we cry."

-to indulge in guilt. But it is an unproductive sentiment, it does not start revolutions. Guilt, imposes itself like a nagging cavity, you are acutely aware of its presence but you continue to shovel the same sweets into your mouth, until your teeth rot. Until you self-destruct.

"After they burned my homeland, my friends and youth.. how can my poems not turn into guns?" - Palestinian Poet Rashid Hussein