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Elisha Porat - Recipe for a Good Poem |
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Take the painful remembrance of your childhood, |
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Overlay it with the greening patina |
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Of the memory of the years and the words. |
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And then, with your sharpened pencil, peel it, |
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Carve it up violently, so that it breaks as |
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With a scalpel, until it reaches the living flesh. |
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Translated By Asher Harris, December 2004 |
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