we were fine. believing in cardful
in birthday songs and cakes and in the one blowing the candles out
in the cheerful necessity of the happiness of being born
in chemistry, measuring and scale devices
her name is fatma, we believed in fatma immediately
in sergio leone, in electrical energy
his name is ali, why shouldn’t we?
we were fine
we were explaining the second slaps by the theory of cultural diversity
the first one was improvisational
but the third one is against the human rights
we were believing in human rights
in john locke, in john wayne
in going from somewhere to another
in coats, in cotton fields, in virginia tabacco
in the wars of alives directed by deaths
but mostly in cardful
“lili marleen is so sorrowful”
we took it, accepted it; it is so sorrowful
it was somewhere here, we were believing in it too
whatever it was, there is no doubt about our believing
in handy cameras, in compassion… in renault toros
we would nearly worship, they stopped manufactoring fortunately
we were fine
were believing in cardful, in monogamy, in surprises
in the arrogant shrinking of the lips saying surprise
in bikini islands, and in gardener trousers
in creams, in that trotsky’s a good guy somehow
in berry time, in tanpınar
in the sentence, istanbul is the capital city of the world, and in wholegrain rice
in lost brothers, in dead languages, in engineers
isn’t there a nice sound in the idea of lost brother
in jodie foster, all together
in elmalılı’s interpretation, a part of us
a few us in karabaş’s tajweed
in sweating, in humidity, in madonna
country is a valuable holding, in national real estate agents
in public railways and in people’s highways
in yasin books with double roses
but not in purple and white afyon flowers
again in yasin books with double roses
in the wishes of take care; see you
why would we
in fountains, in archaic world, in rome and three continents
in contracts and in social insurance
in not spitting out on ground
you can spit out to the sky
while the sons of israel are killing the daughters of israel
we were fine, we were believing in cardful
