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A poem I stumbled upon (because that is the best way to find poems, in the wild, by means of serendipity). It's very striking.

Luck in Sarajevo

In Sarajevo
in the spring of 1992,
everything is possible:

you go to stand in a bread line
and end up in an emergency room
with your leg amputated.

Afterwards, you still maintain
that you were very lucky.

--Izet Sarajlić, trans. Charles Simic

Date: 2014-02-24 03:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Wow. That is a VERY powerful poem. I'm reading Sherman Alexie right now, and this poem is very in keeping with his mood and style.
Edited Date: 2014-02-24 03:21 am (UTC)

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