I Don't Decide To Represent Anything Except

Sometimes I Feel As If I Am Read Before I Write. When I Write A Poem About My Mother, Palestinians Think My Mother Is A Symbol For Palestine. But I Write As A Poet, And My Mother Is My Mother. She's Not A Symbol.

I Have Learned And Dismantled All The Words In Order To Draw From Them A Single Word: Home.

She Does Not Love You. Your Metaphors Thrill Her You Are Her Poet. But That's All There's To It.

I Am Not A Lover Of Israel, Of Course. I Have No Reason To Be. But I Don't Hate Jews.

And You Became Like Coffee, In The Deliciousness, And The Bitterness, And The Addiction.