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BUCHIKI BUCHIKI
while I was making love
I thought about you
about my wife who said
it happens
you could have died
in a car accident or in a thousand other ways
Buchiki Buchiki
but no
a whole country went out to kill you
by mistake
Buchiki Buchiki
my compatriot
from a country that vomits her citizens
you went to be a waiter
in Norway
the same year
I immigrated to Israel
Buchiki Buchiki
and a whole country went out to kill you
by mistake
while you were thinking
about your big Norwegian love
your dreams of Europe
a new country
full of money and hope
and I was thinking about my maid Fatima
whom I loved so much
who went with her husband to Belgium
and a month before
I immigrated
she came for a visit
and brought chocolates
and I loved her very much
but didn't know how to act
and stayed stuck to my chair.
Buchiki Buchiki
your dream was murdered
by mistake
by the same country
in which my dream was broken
in which I was left to poetize
your dream.
Ahmed Buchiki, a Moroccan waiter, was killed by mistake by the Mossad in Norway in 1973. The Mossad thought that he was a Palestinian terrorist.