A Song to Photos

A Song to Photos
By Majid Alhydar

Photos, strange photos
Of pompous generals
And distracted poets
Feeling their importance for the survival of the world.
Photos of forsaken prostitutes,
And promising ones.
Of engineers, businessmen, ex-governors,
Chinese men with flattering smiles,
Priming Swedes, frowning Germans, drunken Greeks,
On-sale Belorussian maids…..
And perishing Iraqis.

Photos, photos, photos.
Behind each one lie a life
Death, birth, documents,
Passports, lies,
Moaning of swift love-making.

So many things
They have not done
Before they surrender to Sleep, prolonged sleep.

2006

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