<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">A Poem I Wrote In A High Fever<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">You who are lengthening your lives</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">with the best doctors and the best medicines</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">remember those who are shortening their lives</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">with the wars</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">that you in your long lives are not</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">preventing</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">You who are again screwing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">the younger generations</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">and winking at each other</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">the winking of your eyelids</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">is like the chill of the swinging shutters</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">in an empty house. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> -Yehuda Amichai</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class=""> (Translated, from the Hebrew, by Leon Wieseltier)</div></div></body></html>