ABSTRACT

Instructions for Getting Across the Border Fictitious man, get going. Here's your passport. Remember, you are forbidden to remember. These are the particulars you must answer to (your eyes are already blue). And don't try to escape with the sparks and the smoke through the locomotive chimney You are a man, and you'll; sit in a coach. Relax. After all, the suit's respectable, the body patched, the new name ready on your tongue. Get going. Remember, you are forbidden to forget. Remember, you are forbidden to forget. —Dan Pagis, Israel