A Pity, We Were Such A Good Invention

Yehuda Amichai 1924 (Würzburg) – 2000 (Israel)



They amputated
Your thighs off my hips.
As far as I'm concerned
They are all surgeons.    All of them.
  
They dismantled us
Each from the other.
As far as I'm concerned
They are all engineers.    All of them.
  
A pity.    We were such a good
And loving invention.
An aeroplane made from a man and wife.
Wings and everything.
We hovered a little above the earth.
  
We even flew a little.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Scheme xxAb xxAb xxxxx x
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 376
Words 74
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5, 1

Yehuda Amichai

Yehuda Amichai (‎3 May 1924 – 22 September 2000) was an Israeli poet. more…

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