I want to be a tourist Poem by Kapka Kassabova
I want to be a tourist
I imagine my life as a city
somewhere in the third world, or the second.
And I want to be a tourist
in the city of my life.
I want to stroll in shorts and baseball hat,
with laminated maps and dangling cameras.
I want to find things for the first time.
Look, they were put there just for me!
I want a room with musty curtains.
I want a view of rubbish dumps and urchins.
I want food poisoning, the dust of traffic
in the mouth, the thrill of others' misery.
Let me be a tourist in the city of my life.
Give me overpriced coffee in the square,
let me visit briefly the mausoleum of the past
and photograph its mummy,
give me the open sewers, the stunted dreams,
the jubilation of ruins, the lepers, the dogs,
give me signs in a language that I never
have to learn. Then take my money and let me go.
Let me be a tourist in the city of my life. Give me overpriced coffee in the square, ...great imginary expression. Beautiful poem I appreciate. Thanks for sharing.
In the city of my life! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
a poem of being free to experience the not so good things in life? ..........well written.
A beautiful sojourn in the dream city with the fantastic flight of imagery.
A journey off the beaten path...that's what life is about..
An objective portrayal an old city with its ruins linking it to earlier times and to history. It has so many unpleasant scenes to offer. I think a tourist looks at everything with curiosity and interest whereas the locals get exasperated on seeing again and again the darker sides of life there since they have to live with it.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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In the city of my life..... thanks for posting....