to a glass of wine--"Relax a bit"--and softens death up in order to attack it frontally and land the knockout blow: "Death, you have been defeated by art./You have been defeated by the poetry of Mesopotamia. And the obelisks of Egypt/and the tombs of the pharaohs/and the carvings/in temple stones all these have defeated you/and won. Eternal life has evaded/your ambushes . . . "
from Haaretz: Palestine as poetry
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