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You Mustnt Show Weakness

You mustn't show weaknessand you've got to have a tan.

But sometimes I feel like the thin veilsof Jewish women who faintat weddings and on Yom Kippur.

You mustn't show weaknessand you've got to make a listof all the things you can loadin a baby carriage without a baby.

This is the way things stand now:if I pull out the stopperafter pampering myself in the bath,

I'm afraid that all of Jerusalem, and with it the whole world,will drain out into the huge darkness.

In the daytime I lay traps for my memoriesand at night I work in the Balaam Mills,turning curse into blessing and blessing into curse.

And don't ever show weakness.

Sometimes I come crashing down inside myselfwithout anyone noticing.

I'm like an ambulanceon two legs, hauling the patientinside me to Last Aidwith the wailing of cry of a siren,and people think it's ordinary speech.

Translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell

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Yehuda Amichai

Yehuda Amichai (3 May 1924 – 22 September 2000) was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's grea…

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