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TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL Key West Literary Seminar
the beautiful changes poetry 2003 ![]() Semezdin Mehmedinović Read Semezdin Mehmedinović's Corpse and Deserter |
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Corpse
We slowed down at the bridge to watch some dogs tear a corpse apart by the river and then went on nothing in me has changed I heard the crunch of snow under tires like teeth biting into an apple and felt the wild desire to laugh at you because you call this place hell and you flee from here convinced that death outside Sarajevo does not exist © Semezdin Mehmedinović close |
Deserter
Only then-- not before you have coffee at the train station; the dispatcher tapping the wheels of the locomotive with a hammer; the paper tucked under your arm-- leaving the city in peace-- you'll never be true to yourself anywhere unless your very life is the only truth unless the empty air calls itself freedom-- unless you're a deserter with an uneasy conscience unless you're Billy the Kid © Semezdin Mehmedinović |