We have...

We have martyrs
eatable shorts
We have Cyrus, Darius
We have mobile shrines
We have mad dogs
We have all kinds of death
We have death in the squares
in alleys and streets
in deserts and universities
We have diseases
We have burnt victims
burnt victims of kerosene heaters
We have a burnt generation
We have earthquakes and dust storms
We have Charter of Human Rights
We have egg omelets with fried onions

We have electric rice cookers
Chinese disposable virginity
We have “Down with America”
We have nose jobs
We have brain drains
We have Zakariya Razi in Harvard
unhappy people in Sanandaj
We cry
We moan
We have smiling clerics
We, we, we ...
We, we, we ...

We have floods in our streets
in the metro and creeks
We have drying lakes
and our deserts are even drier
We have thousands of troubles and snake venoms
We have Chalice of Poison
We have mighty drinkers of snake venom
We have kosher hot dogs

We have parks for the ladies
banks, taxis, buses, beaches
for our ladies
We have everything for the ladies
We have everything for women
Especially:
We have sticks
fingering and taunting
We have virginity restoration
We have bloodied noses
We have acid attacks

We have prisons
We have Kahrizak and Evin
We have a prison in the city of justice
In the city of Karaj, we have Rajai Shahr Prison
In Zahedan, Tabriz, and Ahvaz we have central prisons
We have political prisoners
Public executions
Flower exhibitions
We have flowers as much as you want
We have flowers as much as you want
Poppies in the plains full of blood
We have red roses
We have yellow, purple flowers
We have Tulips
Green plains
We have hope
We have hope for freedom
 

 
Poem by MPD
© MPD, 2012

 

See the original Farsi version of this poem here:

http://iroon.com/irtn/blog/198/