Translation of the marked section:
“History is enough
it’s looking for mine too
to castrate, to cut off with papers pages
sharper than any knife; to crush
and to stuff my mouth forever
with what it cut off
as in the mutilation of war-dead
so that I won’t sing except in a sterile chirp
so that I will learn many languages
and no one of them mine
so that I will be scattered and dispersed.”
Y. Amichai
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