Some Short Poems

by: Parwiz Zabihgholami

translator: Daliya Rauof

A pig
is licking my window
I am pretty drunk
I think it is the moon
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The dog is the world’s last smart
smarter than the dog
is that woman who has given the name “bone” to the earth
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I light a cigarette
A dictator on TV
starts to cough
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Forcibly I am blue
I am the shadow of a tired grass
in the concrete lawn
The sun breaks stones on my head
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Your mother had held a soldier’s skull to her breast then she fell asleep
You had taken off the outside wind of the walls and then you fell asleep
What about me?
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Loneliness is a bird
that its tail is left in the past’s mouth
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She said: hurry up, suicide and go. I want to sleep. I said: what do you have? She answered: tonight you are late٫ I just have the sea! I said: it is very repetitive, please something else may be a poison, a gun…. She answered again: the sea, only the sea! When I committed suicide and came back, again I realized that I cannot swim!
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A radio could be
a pig
which dozes in the sun’s elevator
A washing machine could be
a soldier
who laughs in the woodpecker’s dream!
A door could be
a woman
who vomits in the Friday’s stomach!
A carpet could be
a tripper
who takes photos
in the hall’s yawn
It has been a few nights
everything can afford to be something else
except me
for the poetry doesn’t let me sleep