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in Nässjö, in a park by a lake a black headscarf fails to wrap away her beauty— the Arabic woman on the swing as I approached her she spoke to me in English I misunderstood under the impression that she was telling me to go away that she wanted this idle suspicious-looking character to get away from her this instant as I hesitated I made sense of the last part of what she was saying she was asking me whether I wanted a turn on the swing offering to get off the swing for me how I wanted to walk over and give her a push so that the Arabic woman on the swing would go a little higher but after thinking it over I gave up on the idea © Translation: 2004, Simon Patton |
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