Unphotographable

This is a picture I did not take

of a deaf man on a street corner, screaming a loud, guttural sound in response to a crowd of pro-Palestinian chanters and flag wavers who made a beeline to confront a lone man proudly and provocatively holding an Israeli flag high in the air, and as the pro-Palestinians began to jump up and chant Down With Israel in unison, getting closer and up-in-the-face of the Israel supporter (during an otherwise peaceful antiwar march) photographers descended from all directions to photograph how men look when they're screaming in each other's faces, while the deaf man, standing five feet to the side of this hive in his blue and purple workout jacket, opened his mouth and made a sound that startles me still.