ANARCHISTALES

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IF YAHYA KEMAL WERE ALIVE

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Green Day on the radio,

Wake me up when september

A bit of paper before me, a bit of weed, coffee

Every morning the sun is cold,

like a thirty-year-old child

born dead

I find the sins of the picture I drew yesterday

No good deeds in it; yet I must be constructive

Against

Myself

I must arm

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There were times I set the right squad,

yet ended up all alone

Whereas

the expectation of forgiveness is a team game

Forging a chain of ignominy, I resist the police

and Almighty God.

Against them

I am looking for a good deed to counter

Should I quit painting and start poetry,

Dear Mister Yahya Kemal

I have no idea.

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If only you were alive, Dear Mister Yahya Kemal

I would ask you things

I could ask no one else

For instance,

what am I to do with all these dead inside me?

People are like unopened letters

in their envelopes

Erotic meanings hidden in their passive

clauses

Do you know, Dear Mister Yahya Kemal,

Most people don’t know how to watch a porn film.

It gains such volume in their minds

Triangular cunts, cylindrical pricks, holed

socks, torn underpants…

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My inside is growing cold

That’s thermodynamics for you

You should be able to feel you are dead

when the time comes

I drew the picture of my pulse, Dear Mister Yahya

Kemal

Tell me;

What can a man do with a corpse?

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*Yahya Kemal Beyatlı (1884-1958), whose real name was Ahmed Agâh, was one of the most important founders of pure poetry in Turkish literature, a poet, diplomat, and politician. He is known for his works dealing with Ottoman history, his love for Istanbul, and the years of the national struggle. Except for his only poem (Ok) written in syllabic meter, all his works were written in aruz meter. Wikipedia

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