TE16 Turkish Delight

Haydar Ergulen We’re Lonely, Brother Cemal

This rakı, Cemal Brother you know, drinking this rakı with you was like going to Kars In your poems, how we would drink rakı for hours, you know, Cemal brother, we would go to Kars for ages You know, after you, Cemal my brother no poem goes to Kars Kars is brief, rakı tasteless in poetry, after you,

everything hits bottom see how lonely we are

(tr. by Elizabeth Pallitto and Arzu Eker Roditakis)

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