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Tuesday, 8 April 2025

THE SKINNY MAN TALKING TO HIS MOTHER

 

“Mom, I’m a helpless slave, my skin hardly

holds on to the bone, my eyes pop out

of my head as in a toad, my stomach hollers

with a wound sticking to my spine, I have

no money for the food, nor for beer, nor

for pants, mama I break like a reed shaken

by the wind, I don’t have a country, I don’t

have a woman, I have in myself nothing

but a drop of diluted blood.”

“Shut up, my son! I didn’t give birth to you

for lamentations, nor for the reason that you be

the dog of the accursed Jews, nor that you be

a traitor, nor vendor. You son, you should know

you don’t have a country on loan, nor mind for sale,

I gave birth to you so that you stand strong on your

feet and that you should pass like the wind

through the cannibalistic vendors I gave birth

to you so that you should defend your land

not for you to enter into it like a piece of shit.

Stick God into your bone and take

what He gave you, get out of my sight, you lousy

guy. How can somebody be so stupid?!”    

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