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Copyright Graeme Murphy 2000-2021

 

 

 

hey man you want hashish?

 

Hey man you want hashish ?

Not the voice yet but passing

you know he has you pinned

and spider slowly springs to speak

“Spreche sie Deutsche” in Turkish

“Nein ich nicht spreche Deutsch,  ich Inglise” in English.

 

All around remnant songs wail

strong tenors to the sky for Allah.

 

To the sky for Allah.

 

From minaret to bobbled stone

the streets of Istanbul’s breath

are as useless to the mangled beggars need

to change this insincere, innocent, telling day

into a neon’d Bosporus spangled night time

than  spires are to Allah

Tehran 1972