O MARLÉNE!
©
Farouk Asvat
a free-wheeling song for Bob Dylan
O Marléne! your country
is going to war;
and you are riding
ponies
and jumping cowboys at
rodeos.
O Marléne! you said
you never would do
what your pappa once
did;
O Marléne! with all your
learning,
you are only doing
what he once did.
And O Marléne! the new
guy
looks very much like the
old guy
with the moustache.
O Marléne! you are
caught up in the web;
you have lost the
knowledge
of the little girl you
once had.
O Marléne! don't lie to
me,
don't say there is
nothing
you can do.
O Marléne! you keep
saying
"I could join a
group;
but what can one little girl do?"
O Marléne! you know
that's not true;
it only sounds like
something
someone once said in
Germany.
O Marléne! riding ponies
in California,
why don't you go to war
against your country?
O Marléne! riding horses
in Albuquerque,
why don't you go
to the one who loves
you?
©
farouk asvat
[] composed:
saturday 15.02.2003 [cape town, south africa under apartheid].
INTERNATIONAL
MARCH AGAINST THE WAR AGAINST IRAQ
- held from Cape Town to San Francisco -
AGAINST THE USA, UN, UK, France, Australia
and their puppets.
(final: johannesburg: 16.12.2003).
[] Acknowledgements:
O Marléne! was previously published in:
Goodreads (usa, 12.01.2012, February 2012).
I Dream In Long Sentences (kindle, 2015);
I Dream In Long Sentences (amazon paperback,
p75, 2015).
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