Mess Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Mess

As cowboys have own words
-fields' slaves for cotton
-Mayas and the Incas
-for farming of the corn
-we had our local words
-in village
-area, province
-and many borderless.

Shovels were many kinds
-for plough long and sharp
-for water square, semi-round
-special there was one
-which was called: the "Kaj Bill"
-it was bent and used for
-removing defecate from wells
-to end with the farmers…

Now here, after years
-most of time an expert
-I am called to go help
-among them from the
-sunken deep; problem

In nineteen twenties
-Syria was French
-Turkey smelled Othman
-and after genocide
-Armenians scattered
-Kurds were called to replace
-Ararat was a mess
-many left to escape
-misery and hardship
-some chose the Syria

Never these immigrants become the citizens
-though things changed many times
-now they are refugees
-in States, Canada
-with US being hell I get calls to go help
-so I see depth of mess! ! !