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Poetry || SubmissionsRECITALBy karen Alkalay-Gut ‘Jenin 'was nothing like you’ve seen on the screen.’ ‘Jenin had no relief,’ he says, turning on the stool away from the keys, pushing his thick hair from his eyes with long movements. ‘Jenin’ – turning back and to play a delicate chord – ‘was worse than I’d ever dreamed. Even worse than the caf? in Tel Aviv. Jenin. Have you ever been in streets so close the houses and all the raging people within lean over you?’ Jenin. He dips with his delicate fingers onto the keys. ‘Even the child who came out to me begging a cigarette’ – now the music twinkles like little stars ‘was only sent to distract me from the sniper just behind. ‘And everything was mined. Even the man who seemed mortally wounded. I wanted to go to him – David held me back – He blew up before my eyes.' In the growing dim of the afternoon. the music meanders from piece to piece. ‘I know why we went into Jenin. That rusty nail in my thigh keeps reminding me of that day in the caf?. I know why we went into Jenin. I know why we didn’t bomb from the air.’ He tries a trill but it is wooden, disconnected, and continues without keys. ‘We have enough funerals of our own, and I’ve outgrown the eye for an eye creed long ago.’ ‘I have willed to keep going but I don’t know how we can ever make music again.’ Karen Alkalay-Gut gut22@post.tau.ac.il http://geocities.com/alkalay_gut More poetry by Karen Alkalay-Gut at Ariga:
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