I’m an immigrant

Hooman Azizi

Translated by Maryam Hoole, edited by Sheema Kalbasi & Roger Humes

                                                 I have a white skin   
that’s not beautiful anymore  with change of location

                       I have blue eyes    that are ordinary now with the change of country

                          and poetry       that  don’t need me anymore    to write   with the change of language

                                                                           
                                        I’m an immigrant

                                                                           
    and policemen     value me good

                                                              They hold the black heads of immigrants under their boots

                                                                            
                                        They hold me

                                                                           
           and in their camera’s lens   their faces are giving altruistic smiles

                                                                           
                                       I’m an immigrant

                                                             they attach my hands behind  in the hospital

                                  and inject serum in my eyes

                                                                           
 The black fume arises from my head

                                                       the black    that my eye walks in

                                                  the black of world

                                                                           
                                      I’m an immigrant

                                                                         
and I have a stable linkage with history
                                                                           
    A division in the museum
 
A division in my hands poor on the stones of shrines and palaces.