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    A new pair of shoes (Afghanistan)

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    Alice Andrews
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    Jag skrev en dikt om Afghanistan igår, efter att ha sett nyheterna. Den heter A new pair of shoes (Afghanistan). 16/8-2021

    A new pair of shoes
    Nothing to lose
    I don’t need them but I want them
    They would need them but cannot have them
    I decided not to buy
    They decided they’d rather die
    Falling from an airplane
    I just want to cry

    Because what are new shoes
    When your country is bleeding
    They have nothing to lose
    But the hope of fleeing
    Twenty years of progress
    Shuttered in one breath
    Europe is a fortress
    Afghanistan is death

    What are new shoes
    When revolutionaries are under attack?
    When one step forward
    Meant a thousand leaps back
    When the talibans are hunting down
    Every critical voice
    When clinging to an airplane
    Was their only choice

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A new pair of shoes (Afghanistan)

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by

Alice Andrews
in , ,

Jag skrev en dikt om Afghanistan igår, efter att ha sett nyheterna. Den heter A new pair of shoes (Afghanistan). 16/8-2021

A new pair of shoes
Nothing to lose
I don’t need them but I want them
They would need them but cannot have them
I decided not to buy
They decided they’d rather die
Falling from an airplane
I just want to cry

Because what are new shoes
When your country is bleeding
They have nothing to lose
But the hope of fleeing
Twenty years of progress
Shuttered in one breath
Europe is a fortress
Afghanistan is death

What are new shoes
When revolutionaries are under attack?
When one step forward
Meant a thousand leaps back
When the talibans are hunting down
Every critical voice
When clinging to an airplane
Was their only choice

, ,

Om mig

En (snart) trettioårig person med (snart) tjugo års (!) bloggkarriär, som nuförtiden mest upprätthåller bloggandet för min egen nostalgis skull, men du är förstås välkommen att hänga på. Skriver mest om kultur jag konsumerar, men även om min vardag, politik och annat smått och gott. Borgerliga intressen – god mat och vin, vackra tavlor, klassisk litteratur och dyra sporter – med hjärtat på rätt ställe (d.v.s. vänster).

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Tag: Afghanistan

  • A new pair of shoes (Afghanistan)

    —

    by

    Alice Andrews
    in , ,

    Jag skrev en dikt om Afghanistan igår, efter att ha sett nyheterna. Den heter A new pair of shoes (Afghanistan). 16/8-2021

    A new pair of shoes
    Nothing to lose
    I don’t need them but I want them
    They would need them but cannot have them
    I decided not to buy
    They decided they’d rather die
    Falling from an airplane
    I just want to cry

    Because what are new shoes
    When your country is bleeding
    They have nothing to lose
    But the hope of fleeing
    Twenty years of progress
    Shuttered in one breath
    Europe is a fortress
    Afghanistan is death

    What are new shoes
    When revolutionaries are under attack?
    When one step forward
    Meant a thousand leaps back
    When the talibans are hunting down
    Every critical voice
    When clinging to an airplane
    Was their only choice

    , ,

    Jag skrev en dikt om Afghanistan igår, efter att ha sett nyheterna. Den heter A new pair of shoes (Afghanistan). 16/8-2021 A new pair of shoesNothing to loseI don’t need them but I want themThey would need them but cannot have themI decided not to buyThey decided they’d rather dieFalling from an airplaneI just want…