ANN/Armenian News – TLG – 02/03/2024 – Angst – Bedros Afeyan

The Literary Armenian News

Angst

Give me German philosophy
French gab, wine, poetry
Italian cuisine, belle cantos, scenery
Spanish painters, dancers, guitars Olé
Japanese fighting styles, haikus, sushi
Russian novels, laments, morbidity and me
Alcohol spilled in silent forests of envy
African suns come rise and sigh
Black Slavery and Indian castes
As Nazis seek manual scavenger
Book burner, oiled submerger
Cleaning society excrementally
Expose Poland, Turkey, Hungary, Israel
Brazil, Egypt, Iran, North of the DMZ
Batshit crazy, Putin beating a tin drum silly
Brotherhoods of tyranny, China be my baby
And now unto us a Trump is forgiven
And Trump our own brief grief stricken
Border walls and dungeons fester
White folk be just fine again mein dump
Bundestag burning – its marshmallow time

Bedros Afeyan

Palo Alto, CA

1-15-2020

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Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS