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A STRANGER
IN A STRANGE LAND
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For a good number of years
Aldous Huxley was one of my favorite writers.
When he died on the same day
Kennedy was assassinated,
he was ignored by the media.
That’s when I realized
I was a stranger in a strange land.
*
He knows nothing
and he pretends to be an expert
on any given subject.
He must be an Armenian from Beirut.
*
I have heard it said that
Jesus was an Armenian
because he was betrayed
by a fellow countryman.
*
In a friendless world
two or twenty-two more enemies
will neither make nor break me.
*
If I were to name
one of the strangest phenomena in the world,
it would have to be the difference
between the real and the written version
of our history.
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IN A STRANGE LAND
******************************
For a good number of years
Aldous Huxley was one of my favorite writers.
When he died on the same day
Kennedy was assassinated,
he was ignored by the media.
That’s when I realized
I was a stranger in a strange land.
*
He knows nothing
and he pretends to be an expert
on any given subject.
He must be an Armenian from Beirut.
*
I have heard it said that
Jesus was an Armenian
because he was betrayed
by a fellow countryman.
*
In a friendless world
two or twenty-two more enemies
will neither make nor break me.
*
If I were to name
one of the strangest phenomena in the world,
it would have to be the difference
between the real and the written version
of our history.
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