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I think we'll be just two
more poems, one from this book

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and then a newer--

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واحدة أخرى وبعدها أكمل أنت.

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We'll read a poem
called "Nothing More"

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about the effects
of growing old.

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Taha said, old age was
the flip side of the coin

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that Kassim was like.

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But it does have its charms.

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And this poem is, in
some way, about both some

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of the more nightmarish
aspects of growing old

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but also about
some of its charms.

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So, "Nothing More" and then
one more poem after that.

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ليس إلا.

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You remember that one?

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Oh, yes.

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Sure.

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التغيرات التي تعرضت لها في جسدي

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بعد أن وضعت قدمي في الستينات من عمري

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كانت معدودة
عادية

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بضع تعثرات

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بضع تغيرات ليس إلا

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ضغط يضاهي السكري

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التهاب مقيم في المفاصل

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اضطراب مزمن
في وظائف كوكبة من الغدد الأساسية

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فُض فمي
ثقُل سمعي

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خلل جذري في رؤيتي عبر نظارات سميكة

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الاعتماد الكلي على العكاز حتى عندما
أقعد

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أرى الأرق يختبأ في ليل أسود أسود
أطول من شعرة التيل

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بضع تغيرات كما ترى

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إلى جانب وهن دائم في عضلة الفرح وهي القلب

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أيضًا ملاحظة حالات عامة لافتة

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من فئة اللجوء إلى استعمال تعبير

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فُض فمي بدل قول سقطت أسناني

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"The changes facing my body when
I first set foot in my sixties

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were normal.

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They were only a
handful, nothing more.

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A battle between my sugar and
blood, persistent inflammation

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in joints, and chronic
trouble with the fluids

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flowing from the principal
cluster of glands.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I held my tongue as
my hearing worsened.

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And a serious flaw
developed in my vision

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even through thick
glasses, along

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with a total dependence on
my cane even when coughing.

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An unrelenting
Zoroastrian insomnia

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pursued me on the
blackest of nights,

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longer than the
hair of 60 ghouls.

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As you see, they
were only a few.

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Apart from those
involving ceaseless

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fatigue in the muscle,
charged with joy in my heart.

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An interesting general
condition was also observed.

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Along the lines of my resorting
to using the expression 'I held

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my tongue' instead of
saying, 'my teeth fell out.'"

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