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4 Ghazal Game #2: Pin theTail on the Middle Eastern Donkey By spinning yourself you’ll spin the donkey. Sufis teach us how to pin the donkey. At school in Cairo, we watched where we stepped. (The groundskeeper didn’t pen the donkey.) “Yalla, y’hmar!” yelled at a slow driver In an attempt to quicken the donkey. It’s all connected. One wrestles within To change the real world and pin the donkey. The butterflies have all been cataloged. Hapless scientists just pin the donkey. Can’t understand this game? Stop thinking. Close Your sense of self and open the donkey. “Hey, poet, we’re literal!We came here With blindfolds and tacks to pin the donkey.” Let’s say you hit the target.What’s the point? It’s not like you really win the donkey. A live sex act too freaky to recount Traumatized me, the woman, the donkey . . . If Lennon was theWalrus, I’m at best The camel, maybe even the donkey. ...

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