Husbands
Nurit Zarchi
2001
They present me with the bill
For not having been satisfied,
And they always surprise me with the wealth of their lexicon.
They ask me for a receipt for my fate,
And they make me think,
That because of my cat
We live in the wrong town.
At the hour of international unrest
They turn me over to my mother
As if the fact that I myself am a mother…
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