in the poem Mural: "Whenever I search for myself/I find the others/And when I search for them/I only find my alien self/So am I the individual-crowd?" The interiority of this poem renders its tone radically different from his early assertive poem Identity Card: "Put it on record./I am an Arab./And the number of my card is fifty thousand./I have eight children/And the ninth is due after summer./What is there to be angry about?" from Frontline: Lover from Palestine
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