Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Abu Nuwwas reincarnated?

I stumbled over this 'poem' yesterday, performed by a young artist. When I heard it my associations went automatically to Abu Nuwwas and one of his poems about "Fucking the people" (or the establishment if you may).

I know of course that it's a risky endeavor to compare any young writer to Abu Nuwwas. It is wrong for two reasons:

1) No one compares to Abu Nuwwas when it comes to provocations, erotic fantasies and ingenuity.
2) How can I say that Abu Nuwwas wrote poems about fucking the people and the establishment? The last hundred years fascist islamists have tried to censor and burn the evidence of Abu Nuwwas being a provocateur and an early resistance poet (the last attempt on restoring Abu Nuwwas' legacy was made by the Egyptian government in 2001, after pressure from the earlier mentioned fascist islamists, when they burnt 6000 of his books... Well done! Mabrouk!)

Abu Nuwwas encourages you to fuck the religious establishment, no wonder the religious establishment retaliates now - 1200 years after.

(How did the story about the male and female spider go?)

2 Comments:

Blogger Linda said...

Thought so...

1:51 am  
Blogger Linda said...

I would rather call him the father of swinging, in light of his swinging life... but that's me...

2:38 pm  

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