Fatima Naoot Poems

All of a sudden she could see
After an intricate operation performed in a hurry
More in line with committing criminal poetry
A long time she had listened to dozens of books
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At forty
Ladies' bags become bigger
To hold blood-pressure pills and sugars lumps
And spectacles
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He had one heart
And an eagle
Waited
On a far hill
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They will ring the bells the first of June
Some good reasons for that
The most important one is that
It is the first of June
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This is my chair
You
Know how to jump over the red lines.
An ash tray and a switched-off mobile
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To Christina whom I forgot to kiss
Tomorrow Satan dies
Before he skims through his paper on the beach
- As he does every morning -
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I need a ghost
To manage my wardrobe
The clothes of the departed on one side
And henna on the other
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I feel like weeping,
I really do,
A girl lost in the streets
Unable to calculate or count
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Certainly
you were drawing flowers
on your papers during your Math class
and nodding to your teacher now and again
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She was in my place
Burning her hands when cooking,
Dandling the dolls,
Feeding the cats,
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