Poem
Nano Shabtai
"WHAT DO CHILDREN FEEL WHEN PARENTS DIVORCE?"*
Go to schooldo lessons:
(Geography)
mother – Jerusalem
father – Tel Aviv
mini-bus
for the mini-rider
(Language Arts)
If he is not . . .
what am I**
(English)
because
Dad is dead
Dad is dead
(Agriculture)
he was
like a gardener
agardenerraisingwheat
the gardener left
the wheat remained in the garden to grow
the wheat will grow
(but)
thinly
(Break – eat sandwich)
(Sex Education)
father – penis
mother – vulva
father – sex
mother – nada
(Citizenship)
we will plant and build
and carpet the land with green
yesterday is behind us
but our hearts
cement
(Math)
one family
minus father
one
our god
a root
a square
(all functions of
one zero
missing)
(Home Economics)
everything charred
— ring —
home work.
© Translation: 2009, Lisa Katz
*How It Feels When Parents Divorce by Jill Krementz, Knopf Books, New York, 1988
**“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And when I am for myself, what am ‘I’? And if not now, when?” Rabbi Hillel
"מה ילדים מרגישים כשההורים מתגרשים?"
"מה ילדים מרגישים כשההורים מתגרשים?"
הולכים לבית ספר
ועושים שיעורים
(גיאוגרפיה)
אמא – ירושלים
אבא – תל אביב
אוטובוס דן
לנייד הקטן
(עברית)
אם אין אבי
-אי
מי לי
(אנגלית)
BECAUSE
דד איז דד
דד איז דד
(חקלאות)
והוא היה כמו גנן
גנןגידלדגןבגן
גנן נשא רגליו מכאן
דגן נשאר לגדול בגן
דגן יגדל
(אבל)
קצת דל
(\'הפסקה – אוכלים סנדוייץ)
(חינוך מיני)
אבא – פין
אמא – פות
אבא – מין
NOT -- אמא
(מולדת)
אנו עוד ניטע לך ונבנה לך
ונפרוש לך מרבדי גנים
האתמול נשאר מאחורינו
אך ליבנו
מלט בשלמת בטון
(חשבון)
משפחה אחת
פחות אבא
אחד
אלוהינו
בשורש
בריבוע
באבוא
כל זה פונקציה של)
אפס
(נעלם אחד
(חוג בישול)
הכל נהפך לפחם
- צלצול -
שיעורי בית
© 2006, Nano Shabtai
From: The Iron Girl
Publisher: Yedioth Ahronoth and Hemed Books, Tel Aviv
From: The Iron Girl
Publisher: Yedioth Ahronoth and Hemed Books, Tel Aviv
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"WHAT DO CHILDREN FEEL WHEN PARENTS DIVORCE?"*
Go to schooldo lessons:
(Geography)
mother – Jerusalem
father – Tel Aviv
mini-bus
for the mini-rider
(Language Arts)
If he is not . . .
what am I**
(English)
because
Dad is dead
Dad is dead
(Agriculture)
he was
like a gardener
agardenerraisingwheat
the gardener left
the wheat remained in the garden to grow
the wheat will grow
(but)
thinly
(Break – eat sandwich)
(Sex Education)
father – penis
mother – vulva
father – sex
mother – nada
(Citizenship)
we will plant and build
and carpet the land with green
yesterday is behind us
but our hearts
cement
(Math)
one family
minus father
one
our god
a root
a square
(all functions of
one zero
missing)
(Home Economics)
everything charred
— ring —
home work.
© 2009, Lisa Katz
From: The Iron Girl
From: The Iron Girl
*How It Feels When Parents Divorce by Jill Krementz, Knopf Books, New York, 1988
**“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And when I am for myself, what am ‘I’? And if not now, when?” Rabbi Hillel
"WHAT DO CHILDREN FEEL WHEN PARENTS DIVORCE?"*
Go to schooldo lessons:
(Geography)
mother – Jerusalem
father – Tel Aviv
mini-bus
for the mini-rider
(Language Arts)
If he is not . . .
what am I**
(English)
because
Dad is dead
Dad is dead
(Agriculture)
he was
like a gardener
agardenerraisingwheat
the gardener left
the wheat remained in the garden to grow
the wheat will grow
(but)
thinly
(Break – eat sandwich)
(Sex Education)
father – penis
mother – vulva
father – sex
mother – nada
(Citizenship)
we will plant and build
and carpet the land with green
yesterday is behind us
but our hearts
cement
(Math)
one family
minus father
one
our god
a root
a square
(all functions of
one zero
missing)
(Home Economics)
everything charred
— ring —
home work.
© 2009, Lisa Katz
*How It Feels When Parents Divorce by Jill Krementz, Knopf Books, New York, 1988
**“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And when I am for myself, what am ‘I’? And if not now, when?” Rabbi Hillel
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