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Time Out

22 January 2026 /Posted byLizzie Eldridge
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Image: Montecruz Foto

By Lizzie Eldridge

I stopped checking the news
Just for today
The psycho-maniacs
stuck hard at it
anyway

I went shopping
Sunk my thumb
Deep into avocados
brazenly labelled
Product of Israel

Back home
sitting in my chair
I muttered an angry wish
I closed my eyes
I breathed

Tags: Gaza genocide, Israeli war crimes
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Lizzie Eldridge is an activist, Vice President of Scottish PEN, and the author of 3 works of fiction: Duende (Amazon 2015); Vandalism (Merlin Publishers 2015); It Doesn't Matter When (Alien Buddha Press 2024).

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