they named a street
after my great grandpa
my dad thanked the mayor
on behalf of the family
honored but unable
to attend the ceremony
on account of
they named the city
after the father
of zionism
it never occurred to my mouth
how herzl
lived in herzliya
it occurred
to ask what the street was named
before harry davidowitz
and to beg
my dad not to go
I forgot to ask
what herzliya
had replaced
apollonia would’ve been
the deliberate
misleading answer
on account of
alharam or sidna ali
would be a confession
too obvious
to locate on google ai
in the family photo album
im named after harry
a street that used to have another name
or likelier
the whole skeleton
had been removed from its body
supplanted by luxury condominiums
renamed in honor
of forgotten zionists
by chance
amidst a genocide
a journey of a poem
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