Alphabetical list of poems in English on HearSay #14: Asylret (multilingual) #18 Freshly Ironed a stranger Butterflies are not contagious Clothes and shoes cocoon Deeper up Denmark for President Des erreurs ont été commises don’t translate everything do YOU like eggs? drive EGGS For the carpenter hedge fence divide Hygge In All the Countries […]
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#14: Asylret
Enhver har ret til i andre lande at søge og få tilstået asyl mod forfølgelse
ܟܠ ܼܛܕ ܐ ܼ ܕܝܠܸ ܝܮܠܹܗ ܙܸܕܩܐ ܹܒܝܮܓܘܧܐ ܦܘܠ ܼܝܞ ܼܝܪܝܐ ܓܘ ܼܚܕ ܼܐܬܪܐ ܐ ܹܚܪܤܐ ܠ ܼܛܠ ܼܘܨܗ ܓܥܹܗ ܼܡܦ ܪܕ ܼܬܦܝܐ
Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution
#18 Freshly Ironed
We exist therefore we think
I think that I am
a stranger
Butterflies are not contagious
Duvets of silence cover the world and the noise
creeps in through cables and sockets
Clothes and shoes
“Als ich zum ersten mal nach Samos kam
no NGOs with clothes
were there not yet
cocoon
*Denmark for President
Denmark is one of our closest allies
Denmark is not very important
drive
I know I am angry with most things anger
part of my anatomy of my biosphere of my liver my liver
do YOU like eggs?
No, it begins long before that, a cell dividing, a ligament, a muscle, an organ, a synapse, a coordinated movement,
No, it begins with an idea, an impulse, see the world, see that world, see this world meeting that world, go to where they meet, become wise, or more ignorant, which ever best suits the situation, but make plans, execute plans, travel while doing it,
don’t translate everything
Unreal to be asking strangers
about the color
of their discharge
Des erreurs ont été commises
A French migrant vehicle
was observed on Friday
EGGS
Like nothing special
is what it feels like
being at work there in the parking lot in Thessaloniki
observing the mobile doctors scrape out dead tissue
For the carpenter
link til tekst og oversættelse mangler For the Carpenter Impromptu translated poem about meeting a young carpenter in a refugee camp, who was the sole representative of his culture there.
hedge fence divide
Work is identity
work is status
Hygge
Every landscape dangling
in its own bubble
intimate
or 10 (good) reasons for having sex with a refugee:
In All the Countries in the World
STATUS
JANUARY 2019
All over the world Peruvian refugees have caused a food revolution, in which dishes like ceviche and aji de galina have become the new favorite dishes of food critics and star chefs alike
In Athens refugees arriving from all over Greece march in protest of assaults on non-nationals
Intentional Children
Children and grownups find
their way up the stairs on a daily basis
I will work
I made a business card for my friend in Athens
who needed to find a job
I WILL WORK
Jus Soli
In 29 countries
I gain citizenship automatically
LGBTQIA+
195 countries
in the world in 72 of them
it is a crime to date
Manual
Verbally acknowledge the horrific events the patient has lived through
acknowledgement in minus? Foundation crumbled? Acknowledgement isn’t praise
Metal Fatigue
Overdraft
Peel off everything around
because I want to write no fulltime employment no savings
nothing to save from money is an abstraction
on the top of things
Nice to Know Need to know
How do I escape if someone suddenly grabs my arms from behind?
Do the Germans consider Indians residing in Germany as refugees?
How can I escape existentialism?
NO-MAN’s LAND
The difference between No-man’s land here and
the landscape before is not
obvious
on the top of things – with Afghanistan
Routes.Home
Prone to loss
RECIPE:
Race?
K: hvad betyder “race” for dig? (tager lige lidt mere suppe)
C: Race betyder i sig selv ingenting.
“Rene” racer blandt dyr fører til svagere dyr, det er et kunstigt, menneskeskabt fænomen.
Racer blandt mennesker er totalt BS. Hvilket desværre ikke forhindrer racisme i at være et kæmpe, globalt problem.
smaller
Light swirling with grief
look at the sea expanding
Shutdown
Slowing down we stroll don’t run
let’s google each other side by side by side
Strange Tree-Dweller
The Tree-Dweller
with broken wings there
Survivor Guilt
I survived the traffic accident
you were in the wrong side of the car
the metaphor: animals = humans
gentle like rabbits
strategic like rats
perceptive like camels
The twins go on an outing
the new mother is not allowed to remain in Iraq
the new babies are not allowed to enter into Denmark
2021 [the man in the dust]
they are placing a large pot onto three broken bricks
a veiled women is lighting a fire under the pot with small twigs
the most urgent needs
Put out the fire put it out NOW
is the point of departure
Utopia no 77974
If the world was a garden
with food and green and sunset
if every human
unredemptions
unread
Keep your seatbelt fastened at all times
the house has been abandoned
the way it was and the furniture and the leftover food
Verbal
Just that one little
word on the note
on top of the keyboard
it changes everything
Viral Spit
People walking on the freeway
with bundles, children and smartphones
no Wi-Fi on the freeway no power sockets
View from a train
An abandoned car in a field alongside the railway tracks
the bushes ferociously pointing in all directions
the mountains in the horizon don’t give a fuck
Welcome on Board
I traveled on an American Airlines flight to Honolulu, Hawaii and back and was booked in a middle seat, on this completely full flight.
41 people in mini bus, children. 3 hours, closed door, no window, no oxygen.
I am over six feet tall and weigh 220 pounds, and was forced to raise the aisle arm rest and scrunch down into a VERY uncomfortable position, with my left hip and left arm protruding into the aisle!
$1000 from Izmir to Greece
what are your expectations for the reception
what are your expectations for the reception of this book?
the young mathematician says following our presentation of intention
White American, R.I.P.
R.I.P Michael Wesley Collins, who took his own life today.
This is what he wrote about homelessness at the end of November 2018:
w/o the use of harm
I am writing the following without the use of harm:
X & X to whom it may concern
In their battle against the regime the family
should dad be present in the delivery room?
has lost numerous family members
You have it
Your immediate joy
your I-want-to-learn-something-new •enthusiasm
a body that seems lighter from the inside
You tell me you’re scared
I see the grown-ups rushing out of the train
as if something was right behind them
you mustn’t wait for me
I cannot stand the waiting I have no space
inside me for someone waiting