Abdellatif Laâbi Poems

The earth opens
and welcomes you
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For today's special
we'd like to recommend a very spicy
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If we could write
simply by placing
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Knowledge is unforgiving
It gnaws at you
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It's been twenty years since I last saw my mother
She starved herself to death
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One hand isn't enough to write with
These days
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You must stay up all night at least four times a year.
There aren't enough crazy people around me to go further than that.
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I'm a child of this dreary century
a child who never grew up
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I migrate in vain
In every city I drink the same coffee
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I am the poem tree. Scientists say I belong to an endangered
species, but nobody seems to care, despite the recent appeals
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