Devizes Melting Pot

“Protection. Conservation. Restriction. Deep ecology. Give me deep technology any day. They don't scare me. "I'm damned if I'll crawl, my children's children crawl on the earth in some kind a fuckin' harmony with the environment. Yeah, till the next ice age or the next asteroid impact." (Moh Kohn, The Star Fraction)/ "This is the fight between God and the Devil. If His Grace is with God, he must join me, if he is for the Devil he must fight me. There is no third way" King Gustavus Adolphus

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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Palestinian Poetry Blogging

I Talk Too Much

I talk too much about the slightest nuances between women and trees
about the earth's enchantment, about a country with no passport stamp
I ask: Is it true good ladies and gentlemen, that the earth of Man is for all human beings
as you say? In that case, where is my little cottage, and where am I?

The conference audiences applaud me for three minutes
three minutes of freedom and recognition
The conference approves our right of return
like all chickens and horses, to a dream made of stone.
I shake hands with them, one by one. I bow to them. Then I contiue my journey to another country and talk about the differences between a mirage and the rain
I ask: Is it true good ladies and gentlemen, that the earth of Man is for all human beings?

from Fewer Roses (1986) by Mahamoud Darwish

Translated by Munir Akash and Carolyn Forché

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