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Waiting for the Barbarians

By Abbas, June 22, 2004

It is hard to know how to respond to John Ashcroft’s frequent terror alerts. I myself have taken to reading poetry. See what you think of this poem written in 1904 by Constantine P. Cavafy: Waiting for the Barbarians.

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