Agus R. Sarjono (born 27 July 1962 in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia) is an Indonesian poet and author.[1] In 1988, he graduated from Department of Indonesian Literature of IKIP Bandung, and then finished his postgraduate program in Universitas Indonesia at the faculty of literature and cultural studies in 2002.
He writes poems, short stories, essays, critics, and drama, which have been published in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, and several journals in Germany, France, Netherlands, England, and the United States. His poems are included in more than twenty anthologies.
Please do not aim me, a rifle wriggles and shivers.
Shut up! Yells the hand. I have to shoot those kids.
But they are still very young! Look at their adolescent smiles
and they demand nothing but your welfare too.
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At the heart of a bloody history
I found Paul Celan secretly taught
the mother of time and the seeds of night to walk.
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Allow me to introduce myself,
my name is Dysphoria,
with a little bit of gaiety.
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Dear editors,
allow me to make some complaints
and a small suggestion. That crane
on the river bank has been standing there alone
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You must be demoratic.
Alright, but please pull your fist
from my forehead. Shouldn't you be…
Shut up! It is entirely up to me whether my fist
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