I Too Want to Marry a Housewife
Agi Mishol
1991
I too wish to marry a desperate housewife
Blur my way into her house with the evening light
The aromas of salad and an omelet cooking
To live in the shade of her becoming
To have her raise me like a dog or a cat I will rise
I will sleep
Surrounded by the stir of her life the spheres of her children
And I won’t be responsible at all for
That…
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