Leaping, discovering, looking, spilling blood and drinking blood, pursuing, being greedy, living and not living

Are you searching for fresh heads?

Alexander is in a back-and-forth,

In pursuit of meeting the selves.

We see Alexander in ourselves, in him, in us.

Is life anything other than this?

You have two eyes for seeing and two feet for going.

Today I have no sword to sever heads from bodies,

But I know well how to vomit over people —

how to kill people gradually…

You, for being seen and for gaining,

How many people did you step over?

We are all Alexanders of today.

I did not see the yellow dancing fish in the sky;

I saw the smoke of burning, bomb-struck homes in the sky.

Mina Hakim