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Aryeh Sivan

INHERITANCE

My dead relatives bequeathed me many shirts.
I have no doubt that I will never manage
to wear them all.

Don’t make things hard for your inheritors.
Dispose of, while you still can,
everything they won’t want:
musty manuscripts,
books accumulated on shelves laden with dust,
photos in which only you see someone you can still recognize.

INHERITANCE

Aryeh Sivan

Aryeh Sivan

(Mandatory_palestine, 1929 - 2015)

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INHERITANCE

INHERITANCE

My dead relatives bequeathed me many shirts.
I have no doubt that I will never manage
to wear them all.

Don’t make things hard for your inheritors.
Dispose of, while you still can,
everything they won’t want:
musty manuscripts,
books accumulated on shelves laden with dust,
photos in which only you see someone you can still recognize.
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