THE WARTIME ISSUE Zein El-Amine   MY JESUS Is the one with the Wired palms, an M.R.E. throne And the canvas crown   HAIKU FOR THE HEADLOCKED We thrash, curse for air As our strangler declares, look How violent the Arab     Zein El-Amine was born and raised in Lebanon and came to the US in the late 80's.  He works as a Civil Engineer and facilitates a Creative Writing workshop at the University of Maryland College Park.  He is a member of the Ella Jo Baker Intentional Community Housing Cooperative in DC and a long-time community activist. His poems have appeared in GYST, Penumbra, DC Poets Against the War anthology, and Joybringer.  He received first prize in the Tallahassee Writer's Association Annual Poetry and Haiku Contest.  He is a regular contributor of political essays to Left Turn magazine and his editorials have appeared in the Washington Post and the Washington Spark.   Published in Volume 7, Number 2, Spring 2006.