Rereading Gulliver Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Rereading Gulliver

Sunless and lifeless and sexless and hopeless I
-sit and read, also watch, Kipling, my dislike
-Gulliver, cause of thoughts

And with them travel to Ireland and London
-to Moscow and the East India
-to observe the tricks and the lies and insults
-from North and the West, to Afghans

See Amir as puppet who obeys:
-"Rule and kill; not allowed…
-to talk, write and decide of people, governments
-beyond demarcation…"

Do my best to dream of sleep with woman in my arms
-towards me her skin and spine; I feel her sweet warmth
-my hands cup her breasts, in zigzag, with exact bra-size
-thirty six goes around, B the cups; for one week B-plus
-naked are her hips and proper to fill gap and space
-that I have between thighs…

But cannot…
-travel in the air and on sea
-on horses and camels and donkeys
-sword in hand, back and forth I do fight
-uselessly, brainless, shed blood
-as Persian and Greek, destroy
-Acropolis, Persepolis…many towns

In times I join Arabs eat locust
-or become a Mongol or Tatar
-later on I join the Wild-Wild-West
-or Europe after the gun powder…

Want to go
-want to leave
-love turning into dust
-vanish to appear as cloud
-or bury myself in caves' grave

Feel like an ember and
-eagerly want it so; to remain
-or become some dead-ash
-and if not the fossil to form a volcano…