Iman Mersal
Jun 15, 2018
2 minutes
—Translated from the Arabic by Robyn Creswell
AN ESSAY ON CHILDREN’S GAMES
Many children’s games depend on a physical handicap. Hopscotch, for example, requires a skillful player to hop from square to square on one leg while the other merely dangles in the air, as though amputated so long ago he had time to practice jumping without it.
Maybe I’m here on this continent simply to walk by
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