Tourists Poem by Yehuda Amichai

Tourists

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Visits of condolence is all we get from them.
They squat at the Holocaust Memorial,
They put on grave faces at the Wailing Wall
And they laugh behind heavy curtains
In their hotels.
They have their pictures taken
Together with our famous dead
At Rachel's Tomb and Herzl's Tomb
And on Ammunition Hill.
They weep over our sweet boys
And lust after our tough girls
And hang up their underwear
To dry quickly
In cool, blue bathrooms.

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sheri cordova 02 June 2020

You omitted the second verse! !

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Yehuda Amichai

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Würzburg / Germany
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