Moshe Benarroch

The big problem with humanity
is that they expect
what are they expecting
what are they striving for
they run they always want something more
the earth then the moon then mars then the stars
then what
and for whom
if no one will be left


what's going to happen to all of you
people
whats gona happen
when will you see
you people
whats gona happen

and as we go into that good night
are the trees here hearing someone
are they spying on us
and when will we kill them if we ever will


the trees are disappearing and the forests
where will they be now that there are no
more trees asked
my son
my sun

where is my sun going to hide
and from whom

these cities are like cemeteries
the only living thing in them are
the tourists trying to find a past
that has disappeared from them

and who is going to remember
lolita

who is going to remember all the glory
now that memory is disappearing too
now that everyone is forgetting how to remember

ask the birds said Solomon
ask the birds answered the suffis
ask the birds said my two-years old son
but the birds are deaf now


definitely
indefinitely

the birds can't fly straight now
they lose their way to Africa
like my family who made a mistake
and came from Africa
to the middle east

ask the whales said the sadman
ask the whales said the baker
ask the whales said the whore

but the whales thought they were birds
and came to rest in the sand
they forgot that death was there

ask the penguins
ask the tunafish
ask the tomahawks
ask the dolphins
ask the dolphins said the scientist
ask the dolphins said the television man
ask the dolphins said the poet

but the dolphin didn't know
how to communicate in a binary way
he was into radio waves
so nobody heard what they were saying
until they run into the tunafish
and man ate them by mistake


then there was light
but this light didn't lighten
it made people aveugles
they couldn't see anymore anything written
they became ill
they had cancers but couldn't go to doctors
the doctors were ill themselves

ask the computer said the freak
yeah yeah ask the computer said the housewife
yeah yeah yes said the grandfather ask the computer

but the computer only said yes

to a question nobody knew
the computer said yes
only yes

but yes to
what

what is the problem
how do we define

and if we define it
is it really the problem

and if we know what the problem is
can we solve it?

ask god said god.