It is time to love each other,
for you to have faith in me when I say: Courage,
for me to have faith in you when you say: Courage.
Many traps you concocted for my stubborn head,
many weapons were …
Fatos Arapi’s “Homeland”
“Homeland” by Fatos Arapi (1930–2018), Albanian poet
Homeland is hurt, is hurt,
Like April with a saddened soul,
Homeland is the cross, the cross,
You hold it – and it holds you whole.
Homeland is the promised place,
You tread …
Rex the Expat/Immigrant
— a short story —
I’m telling my friend here about an expat living in Cascadia—or Cascadie, as you call it in French? Rex Dunguy. He’s traveled the world, and was one of the people who toppled communism in …
I As a Knight
1.
Once I rode
Once the horse rode me
All the way to Madrid
To Madrid, to Madrid
Up to Morelight.
In a kiosk, oh, in a kiosk
They were selling hamburgers
They were selling hamburgers
And I bought one,…
Toss Away That Yankee Drink
(How a call to boycott Western goods would sound in English…)
Have no milk, provoke no spew
Gulp no Coke made by a Jew
Red wine’s bad, it’s for the papists
So the white is the date rapist’s
Devil’s sweat …