Blue fire نار زرقاء

I don’t feel like hiding

In a darkened balcony.

Or under the bed of the dead clothes washer

Dummy lifeless as Gregor Samsa (1).

Or Sarkon Boulos’ boots

Full of distance nightmares.

I don’t want a hot loaf

From the fingers of a deacon

Makes coffins at night

For the Shepherds of Light…

I don’t feel like stealing the mummy keys

Or bringing a wounded cloud from a grave man eyes

Or opening fire on the widower’s obsessions

At an aged funeral.

I don’t want Solomon’s ring

Or the treasures of Hatshepsut (2)

Or the secrets of the new alchemists.

I’m Frankenstein (3)

My strength is in making fighting words

Launching invasions in the Land of Absolute

And luring Sisyphus rock

To my house…

Where filled with eagles of my imagination

In the forest of my head.

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(1) Gregor Samsa: The main fictional character of Kafka’s novella “The Metamorphosis”.

(2) Hatshepsut was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. She was the second historically confirmed female pharaoh.

(3) Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

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