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A poem by Kareem Abdullah (Irak)Translated by me John H. Smith

The Mass Destruction Weapons have a flavor emboldened the frantic hummers to ride the distant oceans, fill the spaces with black locusts, sow AIDs in Maitreya's land with diseased fierce, to discover the maps of hamburger

the mouths of the cities stuffed with bitter melodies convinced of the game utility and the rape of the coming dreams. She closes her voracious eyes devouring thenoises of thestreets, Suq Harraj shops and the flowers of the Tigris.Thevillages, over there, unleashed their Sumerian horses with their dark chests, spreading rampantfires satisfied withconcentrating their red shells demolishing the cylinder seals on Inanna's gilded saddles, opening the doors of Hell todevour green and dry wood alike. She leaps, pokes the morning in the cellars of the gloomy night, and falsifies the moon shine. Ontheirharsh squaws noises and nuclear warheads are borne whose vulgar knight is bragging spreading its anarchy dwarfs smashing the wings of the bull behind Nimrod barricades where their mindless bombed speeches lined besieging history with the clowns whose vices are rotten museums warring crows sprinkling hallucinations fully obsessed in the robe of sedition dying.

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Schwarzkopf: General Commander of US forces in the Gulf War against Iraq.
Maitreya: the World Teacher.
Sug Haraj: Pandemonium market.
Inanna: the daughter of Ann Lord of heaven in the Uruk.
Eat green b price everybody: from the Iraqi folk sayings.
Wings of the Bull: the winged bull destroyed by Isis savages.
Nimrod: Location in Iraq, and specifically to the south of the Iraqi city of Mosul;

Dernière modification le samedi, 20 octobre 2018

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