Fleeting through Transylvania
There lived Prince Vlad Dracul
who captured 12,000 Egyptians look-alikes
in Bulgaria
And so he started the wholesale of slaves
in Wallachia
He is the father of the impaler
Vlad Tepeş, the count Dracula
Then there was Stefan the Great
the c rusader
dubbed by Pope Sixtus IV as
the ‘Athlete of Christ’
who took – by then - the 17,000 slaves
He impaled thousands of
Turkish prisoners
through the navel
preceding his cousin
count Dracula
who did the same
and who lives there
in the castle of fears
His slaves dig and pack
the Transylvanian soil
to keep him alive on his journeys.
He admires his gypsy* slaves
and travels at night
to conquer the time
just as he conquered this land
and those he reigns
To make a long story short
He can’t get it up
so he puts everyone down
We eat garlic every day
and have sex for two minutes
and hold a c ross for the rest of the
But for you I’ll say
hold your neck
and run
you’re too dark to have fun.
Vida Kashizadeh
10/10/1997
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* Although the word gypsy comes from the word Egyptians, the reason was not because - as all literature concerning Rroma assume – people of Europe thought they were literally from today’s Egypt.
During the Middle Ages all the areas currently called (still wrongly) Middle and Near East used to be known as Egypt, apart from Palestine.
This is because the crusaders reached Palestine by taking a ship to Alexandria/Egypt and from there went to Palestine mostly walking. It is very likely that this journey was the basis of their geographical perception of the area.