Hey Hoo

I want to let go of all the feathers

I kept in my elementary school books

On those pages that had poems

By Mostafa Rahmandoust

I want to climb the school tower

And shout out loud all the verses

They made me memorize

The pomegranate with rubies inside

The song of the rain on the tin roofs

Little girl, little girl do not be a fool

Life is fine, love and respect all

Be good, be good, be true!

I want to tear my book of Hafiz

And let his Ghazals fly page by page

Like magic flying carpets

Over the city of mice and men

I want to cast a spell and turn

The school trees into nude bar maids

Drinking wine from pitchers

With their body hairs purple

And their left arms flung in the air

All humming “Heyyyyy hey hey 

Hoooooo hoo hoo

Life is short, too too too!”