Azudi is just like
Genghis Khan when he walks
he walks on a pile of fresh corpses
the Khan did not clean his teeth
either
the Khan also belched the Khan
did not take off his boots either Azudi
has shattered the mouths of twenty poets today *
In these savage lines Iranian Poet-Critic Reza Baraheni describes one of the men who tortured him in Iran's notorious Committee Prison, where Baraheni was held without charge for 102 days in 1973. Baraheni, who now lives in exile in New York City,...
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