Whom Did You Call, Joseph? Poem by Liza Sud

Whom Did You Call, Joseph?

Whom did you call, Joseph?
who dictated the Truth to you?
you have been calm though nervous,
with bald head - the most beautiful.

You are reading poems by syllables,
How Rabbis.are reading Torah,
not dividing into words while speaking
but sequentially as the codes.

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Кого ты призывал, Иосиф?
кто тебе диктовал об Истине?
как сквозь нервность ты был спокоен,
и красивее всех, с лысиной.

Ты читаешь стихи слогами,
как читает раввин Тору.
на слова речь не разделяя,
а последовательно, как коды.

Friday, April 8, 2016
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