And the Arabs Ask Terrible Questions
Narrated by Kristine Doll
Massachusetts
Ferlinghetti – And the Arabs Asked Terrible Questions …
And the Arabs asked terrible questions
and the Pope didn’t know what to say and the people
ran around in wooden shoes asking which way was the
head of Midas facing and everyone said
No instead of Yes
While still forever in the Luxembourg
gardens in the fountains of the Medicis were the
fat red goldfish and the fat white goldfish
and the children running around the pool
pointing and piping
Des poissons rouges!
Des poissons rouges!
but they ran off
and a leaf unhooked itself
and fell upon the pool
and lay like an eye winking
circles
and then the pool was very
still
and there was a dog
just standing there
at the edge of the pool
looking down
at the tranced fish
and not barking
or wavilig its funny tail or
anything
so that
for a moment then
in the late November dusk
silence hung like a lost idea
and a statue turned
its head