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“Have you seen those zombies who roam the streets with their faces glued to their smartphones? Do you think they control the technology, or does the technology control them?”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Variation on the Word Sleep

I would like to watch you sleeping,
which may not happen.
I would like to watch you,
sleeping. I would like to sleep
with you, to enter
your sleep as its smooth dark wave
slides over my head.

and walk with you through that lucent
wavering forest of bluegreen leaves
with its watery sun & three moons
towards the cave where you must descend,
towards your worst fear

I would like to give you the silver
branch, the small white flower, the one
word that will protect you
from the grief at the center
of your dream, from the grief
at the center. I would like to follow
you up the long stairway
again & become
the boat that would row you back
carefully, a flame
in two cupped hands
to where your body lies
beside me, and you enter
it as easily as breathing in

I would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only. I would like to be that unnoticed
& that necessary.”
― Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems 2: 1976 - 1986

“See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“إذا أشبعت كلباً جائعاً فإنه لَن يعضك .. ذلك هو الفرق بينه وبين الإنسان!”
― مارك توين