Saturday, December 10, 2005

Electronic Identity by Syrian poet Muhammad Al-Maghut (my translation):

"Name: Muhammad or Jesus
or Moses depending on the circumstances
in the region or the world.
Height: depending on who
I am standing before at that moment.
Sex: depending on the observation
skills of the village head or
the civil registrars' clerk.
Hobby: yawning.
Social status: married to,
and in cohabitation with, the cause.
Nationality: Plato's Great United Conservative
Secular African Arab Popular Democratic Republic
or Farhat's Republic of Yusuf Idriss.
Place of residence:
Sidewalk or a [trash] container on it.
Age: perplexed.
Countries visited:
the prisons of Mazzah, Al-Qal`ah, Ash-Shaykh Hasan, Tadmur, Ar-Raml, Al-Miyyah wa-Miyyah, Tizmamart, Abu Za`bal, and Abu Ghrayb.
Numbers of eyes, ears, and teethes: depending on the interrogation centers, and the state owns 51% of them like shares of public companies.
Favorite food: dreams.
Electronic address:
"East of Eden
West of God.!!"