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Smoking is prohibited!Whistling is prohibited!Peeing is prohibited!The entire wall made up of prohibitions,Which one is right?Were I but blessed with a bit of wall and might"Prohibitions are prohibited," I'd have as my fiat. [End Page 57]
Bewketu Seyoum, a poet and fiction writer who writes in Amharic, is author of three books of poems, Nuari Alba Gojowech [Unmanned Houses], Yesat Dar Hasaboch [Meditations by the Fireside], and Enkilf Ena Edme [Sleep and Age]; Berari Kiteloch [Winged Leaves]; and a collection of humorous stories on CD, Shirafrafi Tarikoch [Fragmented Stories]. He was born in Mankusa, Gojam, Ethiopia, and now lives in Addis Ababa.
Bahrnegash Bellete was born in Asmara, Eritrea, then an Ethiopian province, and grew up in four different parts of the country. He attended Haile Selassie I University in Addis Ababa for one semester and in 1972 left for the United States to continue his education. What was initially intended to be a brief sojourn in pursuit of higher education turned out to be an extended, thirty-three-year stay abroad. He now lives in Ethiopia where he owns and operates a communications company and has been serving as the information and communication technology (ICT) development officer of Addis Ababa University.
