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Hope

I telephoned hope yesterday

I asked him: can you 

extract for us odor 

From onion and haddock? 

He said : Sure!

I said : and can you 

Ignite with water a fire? 

He said : sure!

I said: is it possible

to distill form Colocynth the honey?

He said : sure! 

I said : and is it possible 

to put earth 

in Saturn's pocket ?

He said : yes… sure!

everything is possible

I said : then our Arabs [Arab leaders]

will feel ashamed someday 

He said : not in a million years 

will ever happen what you say.


the Iraqi poet Ahmed Matar

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