Preacher, don't send mewhen I dieto some big ghettoin the skywhere rats eat catsof the leopard typeand Sunday brunchis grits and tripe
I've known those ratsI've seen them killand grits I've hadwould make a hill,or maybe a mountain,so what I n...
Don't fear death in earthly travels
Don't fear enemies or friends
Just listen to the words of prayers,
To pass the facets of the dreads
There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will
They range the field and they rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest;
Thei...
Dont ask me for the same love, my sweetheartI thought that life was radiant because of
Why complain of worldly woes, once in your
Your countenance brings eternity to the youth of
What else is there in the world but for the beauty of...
Try and don't let me grieve
Come and try to
This wild onslaught of sadness that rumbles like mercury in Torricellian void
Madness, try and forbid me to feel, come and try
I don't Know if history repeats
But I do know that you don't
I remember that city was didvided Not only between Jews and Arabs,
But Between me and you,
The day was hotter than words can tell,
So hot the jelly-fish wouldn't jell
The halibut went all to butter,
And the catfish had only force to utterA faint sea-mew — aye, though some have doubted,
"AH
don't you remember, 'tis almost December,
And soon will the holidays come;
Oh, 'twill be so funny,
I don't like flowers - they do remind me
Of funerals, of weddings and of balls;
Their presence on tables for a dinner calls
But sub-eternal roses' ever simple
Don't imitate me;it's as boring as the two halves of a melon
Translated by Robert Hass
The neighbors' dog will not stop barking
He is barking the same high, rhythmic barkthat he barks every time they leave the house
They must switch him on on their way out
The neighbors' dog will not stop barking
"Don't drive me away, But hear what I say: Bad men want the gold; They will steal it to-night, And you must take flight; So be quiet and busy and bold
" "Slip away with me, And you will see What a wise little thing am I; For th...