On the blade of a razor

My brothers bought houses

In Eu-

rope

And in the U.S.

A.

And I bought a flat

In Isra

el

Overlooking the Mediterranean

Into my bedroom window blows the breeze

Over the Hassan-Bek mosque

Next to the bed “The Jewish Philosophers of the Middle Ages”

They wrote Arabic

In Hebrew letters

In Spain

And in Alex

andria

In front of me on the television C.N.

N.

Shows our bloodsheds In English

And nobody wants to come for a visit

In “Haaretz” supplement Paul Celan

Meets Heidegger inTodtn

auberg

And I don’t care

I don’t want to go to Europe and the U.S.A. I don’t want

To go to Europe and the U.S.A.

I don’t want to go to Europe

and the U.S.

A.

I

I want to see

Casa

blanca

To read poems by Nizar

Kabbani

To watch films by Youssef

Chahine

I

Want

To make a

Tikun*

To try and find balance

On the blade of a razor

*"repair" in Jewish mysticism