the poem is the thing

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Luck In Sarajevo

In Sarajevo
in the spring of 1992,
everything is possible:

you go stand in a bread line
and end up in an emergency room
with your leg amputated.

Afterwards, you still maintain
that you were very lucky.

--- Izet Sarajlic; trans. by Charles Simic.

Comments

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For a long time, I was petrified of the idea of my husband getting a motorcycle. I always saw the worst scenario in my mind. And then I realized that what happens happens and something just as random could happen in a car or crossing the street.