it was fine but people kept touching my hair
without asking        you don’t have to translate
you know i still speak it                  no i don’t only
talk about race   sometimes i talk about my father
that’s not true     أبو means father it also means owner
as a prefix             _____أبو          he of the _____
i know     you said that in a song        you called yourself
أبو الغناوي ا لمجروح ين            he of the wounded songs      did you mean
father of the wounded songs        do you think a father is made a father
by what belongs to him         i already know that story
it goes     your father died young               he used to sing to his horses
to get them to dance       i don’t know the one about my father
yes he’s still alive but he keeps quiet         i know him yes
i know he’s a name crowded around mine      i know some names
do not survive translation
