I weep for my mother’s maiden name

In Egypt there are no women

with first names. Only spinsters aanisat

or mothers umm

Umm mother to her

eldest son. Wife to husband,

Al- , bin-, so quickly 

after she loses her second name 

will her first join. 

Do the zabaleen 

come around - village 

to village -

to pick them up?

Revolution Friends, Hazem Taha Huussein

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