Yehuda Amichai - Try To Remember Some Details

Yehuda Amichai - Try To Remember Some Details

Try to remember some details. Remember the clothing br of the one you love br so that on the day of loss you'll be able to say: last seen br wearing such-and-such, brown jacket, white hat. br Try to remember some details. For they have no face br and their soul is hidden and their crying br is the same as their laughter, br and their silence and their shouting rise to one height br and their body temperature is between 98 and 104 degrees br and they have no life outside this narrow space br and they have no graven image, no likeness, no memory br and they have paper cups on the day of their rejoicing br and paper cups that are used once only. br br Try to remember some details. For the world br is filled with people who were torn from their sleep br with no one to mend the tear, br and unlike wild beasts they live br each in his lonely hiding place and they die br together on battlefields br and in hospitals. br And the earth will swallow all of them, br good and evil together, like the followers of Korah, br all of them in thir rebellion against death, br their mouths open till the last moment, br praising and cursing in a single br howl. Try, try br to remember some details.


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Uploaded: 2014-11-07

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