November 26, 2004
High Fever
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You who are lengthening your lives
With the best doctors and the best medicines
Remember those who are shortening their lives
With the wars
That you in your long lives are not
Preventing.
You who are again screwing
The younger generations
And winking at each other
The winking of your eyelids
Is like the chill of the swinging shutters
In an empty house.
-Yehuda Amichai
Posted by rowan at November 26, 2004 08:46 PM | TrackBack | Printable Version | [eMail this article!] |Comments
Thanks Rowan.
Posted by: Mike Mullane at November 26, 2004 10:51 PMAs someone who could never master the sublimely simple poem ... I'll just say that I loved this piece.
Very, very good writing.
Posted by: Pamela at November 27, 2004 01:05 AMWhoa ! That poem subtly knocks you out! Thanks Mike & Rowan, I had never heard of this fellow so I looked him up on Google, thanks again !
Posted by: Bill at November 27, 2004 10:23 AMPost a comment
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