A Pity, We Were Such a Good Invention
Translated by Assia Gutmann
They amputated
Your thighs off my hips.
As far as I'm concerned
They are all surgeons. All of them.
They dismantle us
Each from the other.
As far as I'm concerned
They are all engineers. All of them.
A pity. We were such a good
And loving invention.
An aeroplane made from a man and wife.
Wings and everything.
We hovered a little above the earth.
We even flew a little.
Yehuda Amichai, "A Pity, We Were Such A Good Invention" from The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai. Copyright © 2015 by Yehuda Amichai. Reprinted by permission of Hana Amichai.
Source:
The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
(Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2015)
