Literary voices

Greetings,

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Recently finished reading "Against The Day," by Thomas Pynchon, "The Bastard of Istanbul," by Elif Shafak, "The Sound of Fishsteps," by Buket Uzuner and "Don Q," by Jose Lopez Portillo. All excellent.

Now reading "The Poems of Nazim Hikmet," and "The Language Instinct," by Steven Pinker.

"After Getting Out of Prison."

You woke up.
Where are you?
At home.
You can't get used
to waking up
in your own house.
This is the kind of daze
thirteen years of prison leaves you in.
Who's sleeping next to you?
It's not loneliness - it's your wife.
She's sleeping peacefully, like an angel.
Pregnancy becomes the lady.
What time is it?
Eight.
You're safe until night.
Because it's the custom:
the police don't raid houses in broad daylight.

- Nazim Hikmet, 1950

Peace.