greetings from Ada-Kaleh
lokum

foreign country between woods and waters
world’s margin in a silent movie hard to
comprehend
how can one write
from a place that doesn’t exist?

Ezarzia
tobacco and halva
there are no foreign countries
here

Karajan, Cousteau, Arabela –
all fictions
as the languages they speak –
bazaar

the only country is the block’s stairwell
72 steps
greetings from The Next-To-Last