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Poem

Eli Eliahu

ON HOW I AM LIKE A PENCIL

I write one side and on the other I am erased.

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Pain makes me sharper.

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Concealed, thinner than thin, a silvery thread
of lead runs through me, innersecret.

**
Even if I break into a thousand times myself
there will still be an end that continues to
write.

**
I feel fingers
tightening on
my throat.

**
Where do they end?
Where do I
begin?

על נקודות הדמיון ביני לבין העיפרון

על נקודות הדמיון ביני לבין העיפרון

אֲנִי מִצַד אֶחָד כּוֹתֵב מִצַד שֵׁנִי נִמְחַק.

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כְּאֵבִים מְחַדְּדִים אוֹתִי.

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כָּמוּס, דַּק מִן הָדַּק, עוֹבֵר בִּי חוּט עוֹפֶרֶת
כָּסוּף, סוֹדפְּנִימִי.

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גַּם אִם אַשָׁבֵר לְאֶלֶף פְּעָמֵי אֲנִי
אֶזְדָּקֵק לְקָצֶה שֶׁיַמְשִׁיך
לִכְתֹּב.

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אֲנִי חָשׁ אֶצְבָּעוֹת
מִתְהָדְּקוֹת
עַל גְּרוֹנִי.

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אֵיפֹה הֵן נִגְמָרוֹת?
אֵיפֹה מַתְחִיל
אֲנִי?
 
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ON HOW I AM LIKE A PENCIL

I write one side and on the other I am erased.

**
Pain makes me sharper.

**
Concealed, thinner than thin, a silvery thread
of lead runs through me, innersecret.

**
Even if I break into a thousand times myself
there will still be an end that continues to
write.

**
I feel fingers
tightening on
my throat.

**
Where do they end?
Where do I
begin?

ON HOW I AM LIKE A PENCIL

I write one side and on the other I am erased.

**
Pain makes me sharper.

**
Concealed, thinner than thin, a silvery thread
of lead runs through me, innersecret.

**
Even if I break into a thousand times myself
there will still be an end that continues to
write.

**
I feel fingers
tightening on
my throat.

**
Where do they end?
Where do I
begin?
Sponsors
Gemeente Rotterdam
Nederlands Letterenfonds
Stichting Van Beuningen Peterich-fonds
Ludo Pieters Gastschrijver Fonds
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