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The Dead Do Not Sleep

Thomas Thompson October 10, 2016

From page 37 of al-Bayātī's He Who Comes and Does Not Come (1966). An angel drops something onto Nishapur, where, like the title of the preceding poem, the "dead do not sleep."

Tags Iraq, Poetry, 1960s, Drawing
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