Night

[greenstorm]

A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention

They amputated
Your thighs off my hips.
As far as I'm concerned
They are all surgeons. All of them.

They dismantled us
Each from the other.
As far as I'm concerned
They are all engineers. All of them.

A pity. We were such a good
And loving invention.
An aeroplane made from a man and wife.
Wings and everything.
We hovered a little above the earth.

We even flew a little.

Yehuda Amichai. trans from Hebrew by Assia Gutmann:

No work today. and so I suppose I'm not tired -- or perhaps I'm merely trying to avoid the future by avoiding sleep.

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"Scientists are now saying that the future is going to be far more futuristic than they'd originally predicted."