English Engelska الإنجليزيّة
When you see a photo of someone sitting by the sea,
a sunny smile and the horizon, you usually think:
that face doesn't fit the beautiful scenery.
I had a look that made you think:
the sea seems paltry.
We lived in the same neighbourhood.
White trash between the forest and a huge parking lot.
You wondered how I ended up there, married to a fat, ugly man, and strictly religious.
You thought anything was possible for people who looked like me.
I was an angry bitch.
You decided that when I told you to stop leaning against the fence that was about to fall over the bushes.
Dasiphora fruticosa.
My God, you said, who cares about public plantings!
It only takes a dash of lemon for a woman to be labeled angry bitch.
Your first impression of me: my beauty.
Your second: Jesus-crazy angry bitch.
Then there was nothing more.
You never asked about my thoughts or dreams.
You did not think that I deserved this poem.
a sunny smile and the horizon, you usually think:
that face doesn't fit the beautiful scenery.
I had a look that made you think:
the sea seems paltry.
We lived in the same neighbourhood.
White trash between the forest and a huge parking lot.
You wondered how I ended up there, married to a fat, ugly man, and strictly religious.
You thought anything was possible for people who looked like me.
I was an angry bitch.
You decided that when I told you to stop leaning against the fence that was about to fall over the bushes.
Dasiphora fruticosa.
My God, you said, who cares about public plantings!
It only takes a dash of lemon for a woman to be labeled angry bitch.
Your first impression of me: my beauty.
Your second: Jesus-crazy angry bitch.
Then there was nothing more.
You never asked about my thoughts or dreams.
You did not think that I deserved this poem.