A poem for Sapardi Djoko Damono

It’s the weekend And we’ve had enough of death

Goenawan Mohamad

August 3, 2020

It’s the weekend

And we’ve had enough of death

Riding around in the 1970s

before the night is late

on the old Ducati

we chat about funny things

concrete things

fleeting things

And someone says

Do not go gentle into that good night

Every now and then

in the mirror I see

black Mount Merapi

making its fire

of changing times

its lava flow

signifying something

I do not know

I do not know

But someone says

Do no

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