Month: June 2016

Stranded in Athens: August 1990

a few lost days
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to discover ancient truths
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also in ourselves

my dreams fly away
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they simply will not stay put
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filled with wanderlust

our city’s burning
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Zuma-crony corruptness
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tearing us apart

how can you live
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with a constant fear of dying?
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it’s no life at all

desert man’s carpet
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black tent, glass pipe and pleasure
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here at Sinai

my words often pitched
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on the cusp of making waves
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but then I rephrase

thick snow on the roof
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it is warm in our attic
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but your heart is cold

American guns
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turned against themselves again
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when will they learn?

too many tourists
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at the sea of Galilee
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here I walk alone

Homo sapiens
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what happened to our wisdom?
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see the state we’re in

stripped winter branches
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our nakedness is revealed
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just like the bare trees