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[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I wish I was North Korean (Arabic poem)

The poem is not in Classical or Modern Standard Arabic, so machine translation will struggle with it and produce incoherent text.

Here's a few verses of it translated to give you a feel of it and where it is heading. It is written by a Jordanian poet in the Jordanian Bedouin dialect. It is from 2003 in response to the invasion of Iraq and the Arab's weakness and failure to stop it:

I wish I was a North Korean

Standing tall and head is held high

Humiliating Bush the idiot

Stomping his head with my sandals

I wish I was a North Korean

He [Kim Jong-il] did not submit or collaborate

Or he was frightened and forced to compromise

Or submit and cooperate

My head is like mountains

I wish I was North Korean

He [Kim Jong-il] said: "I have a [nuclear] reactor for you

Produces thousands of bombs

And their range reaches New York

You fool, son of a fool

I wish I was North Korean

I will burn you in the middle of your house

You and those who participated in the war

Don't think I am [Hosni] Mubarak

Or Saddam with my idiocy"

I wish I was North Korean

[-] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 months ago

I very much enjoyed that, interesting stuff.

[-] Apollo@sh.itjust.works -2 points 8 months ago

Of all the things one could accuse North Korea of, standing tall is not one of them lol

this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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