The city has just opened.
In the streets of the city
Ox heads are hung
In front of butcher shops.
Bahtiyar Hidayet
Bahtiyar Hidayet, born in 1974 in the Gazakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan, graduated from university in 1995 and has been working as a history teacher since 1998. Wrote poetry since high school and has 4 poetry books published in Azerbaijan.
OX HEADS THINK
The city has just opened.
In the streets of the city
Ox heads are hung
In front of butcher shops.
As if the butcher shop is a book,
The ox head is the picture
Of a flattering poet
And supposedly lost in thoughts.
…In ancient times human heads used to be hung.
The heads of rebels are no longer cut
And shown to the people.
Probably humanity has developed.
But let me
Tell you a few events
That even an ox
Would not do this stupidity.
In the struggle against begging
They use the method of fines.
The poor person cannot even beg.
Or
He must pay as a fine
The money he earned by begging.
Within a state social program
They gave my friend two cows.
Then those thin and sick cows
Were bought cheaply
And with another social protection program
Were given to another citizen.
Look at the news sites:
Site “A” refers to site “B”,
“B” refers to site “C”.
In short, there is information
From site “Z”.
And in that information
They praised the fining of beggars,
They talked about the success
Of the social protection program.
Yes my friend, the situation is like this:
Ox heads have replaced human heads.
Look at the broadcasts:
Those who have enlarged their back sides
Have occupied the screens.
Those who have had no meat at home for months
Satisfy themselves by looking
At the fleshy parts of singers.
And those who send gifts
In the TikTok live broadcasts
Of those whose backsides
Are bigger than ox heads
Are the very ones
Who cannot find meat.
…But maybe I spoke unfairly about oxen.
Look at the herd order
Of the ox-headed gnus.
How friendly
A million-strong herd is.
In nature even predators
Have positive sides:
The lion, the crocodile, the vulture, the hyena…
Those predators
Are the cleaners of nature.
But the predator of humans
Is the enemy of nature
And the enemy of humanity.
Using legal grounds
They litter nature
And they litter human society.
They are worse than an ox,
Although the ox is not a predator.
In the struggle with these two-legged oxen
To be beaten and covered with blood
Is very dangerous.
Just as an ox charges at red,
They take legal grounds
And charge at a person.
Ahh, what thoughts I am thinking.
But now thinking is not needed.
Now is not the era of heads.
Now is the era of back sides.
Now ox heads think.
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