Hagar

Friday, September 4, 2009
Man, Abraham was a *jerk*.

Stranger Things

Bread and water, bread and water
Would that I had borne a daughter!
So you wouldn't send me away

Ride in on Al-Buraq
Do you think I would take you back?
After all that you have done?

I'm not a poet, but for you I'll deal in metaphor
You are the lamest of asses
You've not two, but five faces

And they called you noble!
Noble! No--not really.
Noble! No! Not ever! Never!

Run for my life and the life of my child
To think, to think, you smiled and smiled
To me you are forever a villain

I am awake, but not really awake
The angel stopped my knife to say
"If you suicide, no one will take you seriously!"

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