Joe Sadeghloo Poems

My Chicago Cubs are in New York!
Excitement is in the air!
Local TVs' top of the list
News of the hour...
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Lord knows, Mr. Trump,
I do my best to be a hardworking, conscientious, and responsible citizen.
Lord also knows,
I have done my best
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It has been two years,
since you left us and went to Behesht*
Just one day before the Mother's day 2010
I am still trying to deal with your move...
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Once I went to 'All Saints' to visit Anna
I couldn't find her
She was lost
She was eighty-two
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Oh, wishes and dreams and not so great expectations
All locked up inside my head:

The forgotten melodies
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You sympathizer, empathizer, protector,
defender of the poor super rich people!

Oh! Heaven knows, I feel their pain
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I was driving home
Late at night,
Driving on a tollway,
going north to Wisconsin.
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In search of Americans!

There was a new comer in our town, a noisy suburb of Chicago,
With planes above, and four wheels below,
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THE AZAN

"God is greater than any description
God is greater than any description
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The whole thing is so surreal!
You woke up with a big chill, sweating, shaking, metamorphosed!
You had a dream, a bad dream, a nightmare!
You had visited the Armageddon on a cardboard horseback
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