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Maybe one more from this book.

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And I'll let you guys
go, you guys are--

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it's late and you're amazing.

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[LAUGHTER]

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These are for--
these are ghazals

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written in disappointment
for Dana International, who

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was the Yemeni transsexual
Israeli who represented Israel

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at the Eurovision competition
back in 1999-2000.

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And at the time,
declaimed the treatment

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of homosexuals and
transsexuals in the Arab world,

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and Palestinians, and
Arab Jews within Israel,

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but who more recently has become
a defender of the Israeli state

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and in fairly unambiguous terms.

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So these are, I suppose,
poems for a future

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that didn't materialize.

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"Ghazals for Sharon Cohen,
Dana International."

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In the defile, a
Jew or assembling

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the signs of a detour.

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Landing her parents
in the camps,

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neither sext nor given
to Arabic in the home.

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Can you believe it,
in Israel of Israel?

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In Palestine, we know
400 villages ceased

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for that in the beginning.

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Do you dream of Yemen,
Dana, as I dream of Lebanon?

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In Europe, they praise you diva.

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Jews have not always
fared so well.

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Sharon is singing
between two languages,

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three in your second sex
improvised mother tongue.

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They say you corrupt
the youth of Cairo,

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that you collaborate
with Mossad.

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At home, Likud and
Shas denounce you.

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Home is burnt sound,
disappearance in light.

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Later, your songs are
banned in Germany.

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They say Arabs and
Turks are the new Jews.

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In a feminine voice,
the hazard of presence.

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In your house is their
shelter in Palestine.

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The girl for 2000,
beautiful transsexual,

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web banners we
can all aspire to.

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Embody, emboldened, the
possible this night,

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glamour, freedom's caprice.

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As in air or errant,
as in love, I

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imagine cascading
translations incandescence.

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What a body wouldn't do
shall in time transpire,

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breaking lines of
people's musculature.

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What comes before?

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Cherish your singing
voice, Sharon.

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This moment of dwelling
toward the sky.

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Thanks very much.

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[APPLAUSE]

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