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"Former Kurdish refugee Ismail Zebari, 28, of Binghamton was
killed outside Fallujah, Iraq, last week while serving as an interpreter for American troops." (Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, 15 Nov 2004) 1 It keeps coming up--this problem of the right words. "Their hands were electric" is a beautiful line, But in the original Apache, could it have been "lightning," Or something to do with static shock? How about Bly Translating Rilke so he sounds like anyone in line with you at Burger King? And a Francophone poem in English--how African can it be? I was on 1-81, headed north, right on the PA/New-York line, When I heard on the radio that you'd been killed in Fallujah. Maybe there are countless people named Ismail Zebari, But you're the only one I know, and how many could there be From our radio listening area? And why you, anyway? 2 These are...
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