1. The gloom swarms...and this sorrow swarms
Rain from its ink-well, it writhes and bleeds

2. The night bleeds itself weary...and despite
Itself it bleeds, it drags itself along and bleeds

3. Wearing its limbs, walking on
Its eye-sockets barefoot, it raves and tosses

4. It flings itself on the shards of its skin...
It cooks ugliness, with its cheeks and throws

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6. O night...I call out, but
Do I call out? No...I think the voice is imaginary

7. It’s my voice...and it seems other
When I listen searching for the face of my dream

8. Who am I? ...I ask a person within me:
Are you me? And who are you? And what is my name?

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10. O guard, do you know who I am?
They bought my sleep...long is my night of worry

11. Because I am a guard, sir?
They married her again, money blinds

12. Who am I?...The night builds from my visions
A stature like a spear, from my skin and bone

13. Don’t you know, drunk? The first
Of the news announced what they called the 'curfew'

14. Who am I?..My cousin became a merchant
And bought a wealthy Sheikh, my cousin's daughter

15. Do you sleep in the morning? Her car
Passed before my eyes, over my flesh

16. Listen to me please?..Her mother was tempted
And built two palaces, from the rubble of my demolition

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18. Who am I, officer? I went bankrupt and still they weren't sated
Who, who of the security forces protects?

19. From here, walk, over here, stop, license...
What have you loaded, search, swear on my name

20. Five for tobacco, fifty for them...
And my income ended, and the yearning ended my mother

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22. I knead the oven...do you know? A year
And I knead my sorrows and worries

23. Who am I? My mother used to see
The humiliation of some people, under others as destined

24. I was absent intentionally! My friend has been
Absent for nights, his view of jail is hell

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26. What am I doing? Everyone has
Another concern, and an understanding other than mine

27. My inside falls into its outside
It estranged me more than my voice, and my size

28. 'Blame' rings far away, sir
Do you see among the lost numbers, my number?

29. My face has fallen - because I am a mountain -
Khosrow's horses, I kneaded them into the horses of my verse

30. I planted the cataracts of time in
My eyelids, I froze my sun and stars

31. The wind goes, and comes and I see
My forehead in it and this is the limit of my knowledge

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33. From here I ask him, who is here?
Change clothes, in it what I call my body

34. Who am I and this wounded night over
Whose back it swarms, as I swarm against my will?

35. Is it enough O land of rain? No longer
Do the rains wash away, my pains and my barrenness