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Lionel Abrahams

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LOWER WISDOM

Body, a-tumble in torrent of time,
attempts every minute to report
its last-found secret to the soul.
Imperturbable,
intent on transcendence,
Soul seldom, however,
attends sufficiently
to learn.

Lionel Abrahams

(South Africa, 1928 - 2004)

Lionel Abrahams was born in Johannesburg in 1928 of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania. He died in Johannesburg of kidney failure on May 30, 2004, at the age of 75. Abrahams suffered from Jewish torsion dystonia, a rare form of cerebral palsy that kept him confined to a wheelchair for the last decades of his life.

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LOWER WISDOM

Body, a-tumble in torrent of time,
attempts every minute to report
its last-found secret to the soul.
Imperturbable,
intent on transcendence,
Soul seldom, however,
attends sufficiently
to learn.