I Protest
Aryeh Sivan
1989
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I wipe the dust off my books
with a small t-shirt, an old t-shirt
which was once my son’s. We have
more dust this summer than last,
and its composition is different too:
mixed in it are pieces of plaster and paint
maybe from the houses that were blown up. In any case
after an hour or so of dusting, stripes
of many…
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