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Jakarta Note: Ketapang

what kind of war is this?
bloodshed
along the streets we still have time
to wave banners of condolonce

shooting hot bullets
without knowing our true foe
: he is still giggling
in the darkness of our inner being

jakarta, 1999

 

* Puisi ini terpilih sebagai semifinalis kontes puisi The International Library of Poetry.