Name: Black Candle Drops
Duration: P00H04M46S
Description: Excerpt from the poem "Black Candle Drops" by Abdallah Zrika, translated from the Arabic by Pierre Joris. With sincere thanks to Pierre Joris for all your kind help in contacting Abdallah Zrika, and with gratitude to Abdallah Zrika for being happy to have us sing your poem!

Black Candle Drops

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Excerpt from the poem "Black Candle Drops" by Abdallah Zrika, translated from the Arabic by Pierre Joris. With sincere thanks to Pierre Joris for all your kind help in contacting Abdallah Zrika, and with gratitude to Abdallah Zrika for being happy to have us sing your poem!

lyrics

Give me a glass
to sip this emptiness
An arm
to measure this separation

Prepare me a bed
of glass
for my nightmares to slip on

I don't want to read letters
that don't stand up before my eyes
like nails

I'll give my hand to this dog
come to sever a few of its fingers

I'll leave much white in my writings
so that this prostitute may meander therein
at will

(This is not a pen
but a pick ax to demolish the poet
who tyrannizes me)

The ants will be at my funeral
and I'll leave my tomb to someone
who hasn't found a place to sleep