Yehuda Amichai

1924-2000 / Israeli
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JerusalemOn a roof in the Old City / Laundry hanging in the late afternoon sunlight: / The white sheet of a woman who is my enemy,
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A Dog After LoveAfter you left me / I let a dog smell at / My chest and my belly. It will fill its nose
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Forgetting SomeoneForgetting someone is like forgetting to turn off the light / in the backyard so it stays lit all the next day / But then it is the light that makes you remember.
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TouristsVisits of condolence is all we get from them. / They squat at the Holocaust Memorial, / They put on grave faces at the Wailing Wall
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BeforeBefore the gate has been closed, / before the last question is posed, / before I am transposed.
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A Man In His LifeA man doesn't have time in his life / to have time for everything. / He doesn't have seasons enough to have
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A Pity, We Were Such A Good InventionThey amputated / Your thighs off my hips. / As far as I'm concerned
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Do Not AcceptDo not accept these rains that come too late. / Better to linger. Make your pain / An image of the desert. Say it's said
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What Kind Of A Person"What kind of a person are you," I heard them say to me. / I'm a person with a complex plumbing of the soul, / Sophisticated instruments of feeling and a system
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A Jewish Cemetery In GermanyOn a little hill amid fertile fields lies a small cemetery, / a Jewish cemetery behind a rusty gate, hidden by shrubs, / abandoned and forgotten. Neither the sound of prayer
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