lunch with a poet

11/26/13 08:16

A few weeks ago I heard from a man - an Egyptian-American poet - and I emailed him back suggesting we have lunch. The place I chose, of course, was Rumi Lounge.

Yahia was animated and eloquent in his second (third?) language, which he spoke almost like an American. Setting his speech apart was the rhetorical flourish he gave his sentences. He had grown up in a cultured household in Cairo where his parents would hold literary salons. "As a boy I served coffee to all the great Egyptian writers." The current situation in his homeland depressed him. "People have two choices: the military or the Muslin Brotherhood. And neither of them is good."

He had lived in Miami, which he described as a place fixated on "skin," as in the surface of things. Then he quoted Borges quoting Milton on his blindness: "I have lost merely the inconsequential skin of things."

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