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Carol Rumens

Poem of the week: Sudanese Saying by Pierre Joris

Sudanese Saying by Pierre Joris
‘a saying that says / solidarity / alleviates pain’ … Illustration: Rowan Righelato/The Guardian

Sudanese Saying

One of the non-
bourgeois of Calais
on one of the last days
of the Great Emptying
I.E. the Shameless Hiding
of the “eyesore”
Calais refugee camps
called “the jungle”
where “jungle” is a translation
of Pashto “dzhangal”
meaning “forest”,
one of these non-
bourgeois of Calais
reported
a Sudanese saying
to object to their,
the refugees’ dispersal,
a saying that says
solidarity
alleviates pain,
& this is how
it goes:
“if we die all together,
death is a feast.”

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