Izet Sarajlić
Izet Sarajlić
(16 March 1930 – 2 May 2002 / Doboj)
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Luck in Sarajevo - Poem by Izet Sarajlić
In Sarajevo
in the spring of 1992,
everything is possible:
you go to stand in a bread line
and end up in an emergency room
with your leg amputated.
Afterwards, you still maintain
that you were very lucky.
translated from Serbo-Croat by Charles Simic
Poems by Izet Sarajlić : 1 / 1
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Poem Submitted: Friday, October 23, 2015
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the bloody siege of Sarajevo with its long-long list of innocent victims, is an indelible stain on our collective conscience (Report) Reply