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Poem, 'When I was Torn by War'
Sinan Antoon | October 6, 2009
Editor: Melissa Tuckey
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When I was torn by war
I took a brush
Immersed in death
And drew a window
On war’s wall
I opened it
Searching
For something
But
I saw another war
And a mother
Weaving a shroud
For the dead man
Still in her womb
Baghdad, 1990
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Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist, translator, and contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus. He was born in Iraq and moved to the United States after the 1991 Gulf War. His work, including Baghdad Blues and a novel, I`jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody, has been widely published in Arabic and English.
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Published by Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF), a project of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS, online at www.ips-dc.org). Copyright © 2009, Institute for Policy Studies.
Recommended citation:
Sinan Antoon, "When I was Torn by War," (Washington, DC: Foreign Policy In Focus, October 6, 2009).
Web location:
http://fpif.org/fpiftxt/6478
Production Information:
Author(s): Sinan Antoon
Editor(s): Melissa Tuckey
Production: Jen Doak |
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Farrelly. bookofbamboo@gmail.com |
Date: Oct 22, 2009 |
| WRONGS R US - the errorists.
In spite of our History of Wrecks –
wars hasty and nasty and long –
we're eager to arm for the next,
defending our Right to be wrong.
Our Rights to the rites of our creeds.
To the fool or fraud of our choice.
To bellow the bulge of our needs
at bellicose heights of our voice....
are cobwebs compared to the Right,
more real than their steel to the Strong,
to stand up and band up and fight....
defending our Right to be wrong. |
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