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Farda, called tomorrow in my new lingo, is
bright in the morning, dark towards the end
I gulp down a tall cup of warm & black while
waiting
I take myself out into the streets of
T.O.
down the west end, not the end of the ends,
just
around Royal York at Bloor
it’s not the kind of Royal I wished to step
on, but it has
that air of a Western Town, clean, sort of,
with cute cuts round the curbs
it gets crowded close to Jane at Bloor
how dreamy I sip coffee on Bathurst & Bloor
where? Futures’ Bakery. when? try ‘em anytime
looking at those huge slices of cheesie cakes,
listening
to the asthmatic hum of westernlooking crowd,
I am sitting
sitting sitting idle
they don’t look at me I don’t look at
them
I want them to be in-love with Fellini, they
don’t like the accent,
they want me to be in love, with what?
Waaters? thanks, only
coffee. I turn my chair to face my mug
I walk walk walk
I turn left take me up the Young street
up, up
not up the Richmond Hill, please
stop before York Mills
there’re bits of Dirooz, called “yesterday”
now,
stuck on the bastard-crème puffs of
the Little Tehran
take me back down to the dirtysweet
downtown
I crave wearing red again at the corner of
Spadina &
Queen, over my black & bruised overalls
up on the walls in the city of walls I am
right here
will slip down later on
this is a slippery town up the walls
what with the jerk ups, pricking downs up here
up up
when it rains an’ rains bad
news-guy runs shooting raincoats on me
I tell him “ey baba, emrooz rooz’e aval’e
Deymaah ast
I’m aware of the secret of the seasons
then I go up up
I’m a doughnut fried fresh yesternight
now
I go
to the currs
aha
we’ll live happily afterever
aha
So We Are Disappointed
Saghi Ghahraman
*Farda: Tomorrow
*Dirooz: Yesterday
*Emrooz rooz’e aval’e Dey maah ast:
a line form Iranian poetess Foroogh Farokhzad long poem, beginning
of the cold season , which means, roughly, Today is the first day
of December (implying that the old age, a cold season for a woman,
stripped of youth’s privileges has just begun.)
*The strip of Young, between Finch and
Major McKenzie. is called Little Tehran for Iranian vendors, and
businesses, offices have dominated the area
*Waaters: Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters
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