<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 236);">We Lived Happily During The War</span><br><div><br></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 236);">And when they bombed other people’s houses, we</span><br class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 236);"> </span><br class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 236);">protested</span><br class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 236);">but not enough, we opposed them but not</span><br class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 236);"> </span><br class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 236);">enough. I was</span><br class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 236);">in my bed, around my bed America</span><br class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 236);"> </span><br class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 236);">was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house.</span><br class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 236);"> </span><br class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 236);">I took a chair outside and watched the sun.</span><br class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 236);"> </span><br class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 236);">In the sixth month</span><br class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 236);">of a disastrous reign in the house of money</span><br class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 236);"> </span><br class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 236);">in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money,</span><br class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 236);">our great country of money, we (forgive us)</span><br class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 236);"> </span><br class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 236);">lived happily during the war.</span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 236);"><br></span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9599999785423279px; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 236);"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Ilya Kaminsky<br></span><div>
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