Journal
of American Studies of Turkey
13
(2001) : 1
Edward
W. Said 1935-2003
you
dispensed your wealth
from
a wooden soapbox
yet
must now forgive even this:
my jaundiced paradigm
old-fashioned, tainted with
the grime
of
power. ignorance
is power.
what
patience and moral courage
modest,
exquisite, magisterial
as
if a purple robe which fell
in
velvet folds, each pleat
another mystery exposing one more
travesty
of tyranny, shortcut
alibis
and hollow pageantry
of so-called culture:
the easy dishonesties
with which life intrudes
“a
beginning is different from an origin”
dissident before you were old
a text yourself: ardent and desperate
shaped by circumstances unimaginable
but
human and real/of this world
hopeful to the end
dissent
/dissent
though
death is the truth
of
nature and life
and death always intrudes
ayşe
lahur kırtunç / october 21, 2003