Saturday 8 August 2009

The Soldier

The soldier sits and has a cigarette.

With one paff

his gun changes into a guitar.

And with the next

the guitar turns into a gun again.



The children walk back

from the mine fields,

their legs turned into stumps.

In the moonlight they dance

to the strains of his guitar.





Translated from Farsi by the author and Hans-Christian Oeser

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