Rumours of an Inheritance

- what´s wrong with that boy?

- his father has been in the bathroom for 27 years

- and he wants his turn.

- hurry up dad, let me shit on them as well.

The Absurdity of Hope سخافه الامل

"Obama will say something honest about this government of ours."

counting the gap

My television plays Israeli lies

قهوة فنجان

in a city full of people

Drop

تصبح عينا الطفل عين الالم
The child's eyes become pain's spring

Again

The way people treat each other is the most fucking bizarre thing.

كراسة جديدة مالهاش تاريخ A new notebook has no history

تكلم هراري القاهرة Harare calls Cairo

انا مش بشوف كويس مؤخراً lately i haven't been seeing too good

الرئيس اللي عنده 80 سنة له سؤال اخيراً The 80 year old President finally has a question.

- What do you think about the colour of my hair?












- It's not the colour of your hair which concerns me.

اللي كان ممكن يقوله ادم what adam might have said

"what's all this bollocks?"

زي سكر تحت عسل like sugar under honey

يمكن الدنيا دي بتاعتكم حتكون أسهل من عين واحدة

maybe this world of yours will be easier
through one eye

بين الفراغ و الاحباط between emptiness and disappointment

It was a fucked up day.

بعد كل المدة دي after all this time

"i've forgotten her taste."

ما كانش حلم i wasn't dreaming

"I need my mask."

حلمت ان قناعي وقع i dreamt that my mask slipped

spots

Last night i bought a scanner so i can start putting things up here. but then i went and watched the football, drank beer and remembered that i don't particularly like most things. it was all i could do to carry the briefcase shaped box home. this morning i noticed that i had splashed my trainers while unloading the beer against a wall after a bridge in maadi. the microbus driver was superbly foul mouthed with his horn as he somehow tore past the other vehicles on the wide open tarmac caressing the nile's banks.