News at Eleven: O' prettiest fits of my madness

ya ahla nawbaati junooni

for your sake I set free my women
min ajliki a'ataqtu nisaa'i

and effaced my birth certificate
wa shatabtu shahadata meeladi

and cut all my arteries,
wa qata'atu jamee'a sharaayeeni.

[--Nizar Qabbani, from Poem of Balqis]

from Global Politician: Spare us the words, and spare us the letters

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