Pen Please Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Pen please

With the time exact eight
-leave some works for later
-nail-cutting, breakfast
-tell kitchen: "You must wait."

Too much is on plate
-of things done, visited places
-short is time, I must write

I must write
I must write
I must write

Among them when was guest
-of Abram,
-The Gentle Mennonite

To get it in detail
-remember I was born
-in village, in mountains
-of Iran. He is the descendent
-of Germans after fight
-of Luther with the Pope;
-migration, displaced
-bye-bye to Germany
-in Russia, finally…
-repeat same; Bolivia

Can I be one of them?
-not at all, no, never,

But love them and defend
-their rights to be the ones
-they accept and they want

Patriarch?
-yes of course!
-strange?
-to my eyes
-and others…

Right and wrong are just words
-who are you to comment?
-who am I?

The boys are bare-footed
-run around in the dunes
-and school?
-well, they have
-both for boys and the girls
-but way is different

Boys grow to be men
-wear work gown and a hat
-all of them look-alike
-similar to Bathurst, Saturdays
-when Jews look penguins

And the girls?
-milk the cow and sit, sew
-match pieces of cloths
-make quilt

From men, I have shirts
-and pair of strapped-trousers
-most worn by mechanics,
-as well as factories

Was gifted few of women's works
-in scope of my mind see the church
-the hats hung, came priest to preach,
-I felt some "Heil Hitler! "

I see them inside me as iceberg
-broken from base, floating in ocean
-and melting; in times hitting or being hit
-by unknown, maybe a Titanic
-to kill or to be killed
-though they are against war
-are blamed for Chaco

Thank you, my hosts, I
-will always keep your "Love"
-I told you "wish didn't cut trees for crops! "