The Hen’s Funeral
— Will you go to the funeral?
— No, it’s not for me.
What about you?
— No, I’m not going either.
It’s dangerous.
All the opposition leaders will be there.
Our photo could end up in the same frame as theirs.
— Someone should have told Ahmad,
“What were you doing in the opposition anyway?”
Now he has died in prison and come back.
— He wasn’t even respected there.
He lived a quiet life.
— Yes, he suffered so much and ended up in prison,
but he never gained respect in the criminal world.
He went and worked in a library.
At this point in the conversation
of the neighborhood hooligans,
a rooster began chasing a hen.
A car ran over the hen.
They were plunged into an ocean of grief.
The hen had died heroically
while defending her honor.
They went to bury the hen,
rolling their prayer beads as they went.
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