<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540382" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>You Mustn't Show Weakness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You mustn't show weakness<br>and you've got to have a tan.<br>But sometimes I feel like the thin veils<br>of Jewish women who faint<br>at weddings and on Yom Kippur.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You mustn't show weakness<br>and you've got to make a list<br>of all the things you can load<br>in a baby carriage without a baby.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is the way things stand now:<br>if I pull out the stopper<br>after pampering myself in the bath,<br>I'm afraid that all of Jerusalem, and with it the whole world,<br>will drain out into the huge darkness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the daytime I lay traps for my memories<br>and at night I work in the Balaam Mills,<br>turning curse into blessing and blessing into curse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And don't ever show weakness.<br>Sometimes I come crashing down inside myself<br>without anyone noticing. I'm like an ambulance<br>on two legs, hauling the patient<br>inside me to Last Aid<br>with the wailing of cry of a siren,<br>and people think it's ordinary speech.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Yehuda+Amichai">Yehuda Amichai</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540382" data-title="You Mustn't Show Weakness de Yehuda Amichai" data-description="You mustn't show weakness and you've got to have a tan. But sometimes I feel like the thin veils of Jewish women who faint at weddings and on Yom Kippur. You mustn't show weakness and you've got to make a list of all the things you can load in a ..."></div> </div> </div>

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