{"id":377,"date":"2018-09-16T01:57:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T01:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=377"},"modified":"2018-08-12T17:07:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T17:07:41","slug":"khanzir-by-antony-fangary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2018\/09\/16\/khanzir-by-antony-fangary\/","title":{"rendered":"Khanzir by Antony Fangary"},"content":{"rendered":"
Antony Fangary is a Coptic-American who lives in San Francisco. He is a MFA student of Poetry at San Francisco State University and was the Honorable Mention recipient of the 2015 Ina Coolbrith Poetry Prize. He curates his own reading series called Tenderlovin in the TL, which doubles as a charity event for vulnerable individual in the Tenderloin of San Francisco. His debut Chapbook, Haram is forthcoming with Etched press (2018) You can find his recent work in Welter, Waccamaw, Left-Hooks Magazine, Metonym, Mantra Review, Paragon Press and more.<\/em><\/h6>\n

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Khanzir<\/h3>\n

The only coptic neighborhood in Cairo is located on the dump\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Zebaleen, <\/em>which translates to garbage people\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Yet, my grandfather left Tetelaya before the soil staled and the governor of Cairo decreed the pigs unclean, sending the pig farmers to the live and work on the dump; the coptic Falaheen became Zebeleen<\/p>\n

Yet, I\u2019m afraid to order something without bacon on it\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0as someone will always ask,\u00a0Oh, Because you\u2019re muslim right?<\/em><\/p>\n

Yet, I won\u2019t always correct them, because some people just need <\/em>a Muslim friend<\/p>\n

Yet, the fear of scorpions and snakes would keep my grandmother\u2019s eyes unlatched, she would lock on her children like an Ostrich watching her eggs; my father tells me he remembers hearing the other mother\u2019s crying every time they lost a child<\/p>\n

Yet, adolescents pigeons are killed just before flight so that their bones are tender enough to chew<\/p>\n

Yet,\u00a0 my father bought a golden necklace after 9\/11, he said, When people see my cross, they won\u2019t think I\u2019m a terrorist<\/em><\/p>\n

Yet, my grandmother speaks better English than both of my parents. She came to America in 2011, she said the people of Egypt are perplexed<\/em><\/p>\n

Yet, my father was there to ask one of his customers, \u201cPlease stop calling my son a nigger\u201d\u00a0 as his brown skin purpled<\/p>\n

Yet,\u00a0 the pig is depicted in different hieroglyphs, licking the faces of pharaohs, locked in limestone forever<\/p>\n

Yet, adolescent bones crunch with concession<\/p>\n

Yet, the other customers simply said \u201cI don\u2019t know why she didn\u2019t say \u2018Sand\u2019 nigger\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, sleep is a privilege<\/p>\n

Yet, bacon ruins the taste of everything and I\u2019ll eat it anyways<\/p>\n

Yet, we laugh, Dad, the<\/em> type of person to attack you, isn\u2019t the type to notice the cross<\/em> around your neck<\/p>\n

Yet, Cairo\u2019s dump is located on a Coptic monastery<\/p>\n

Yet, Morsi killed all the pigs in egypt, the only meat most copts can afford<\/p>\n

Yet, my father remembers watching three houses burn and six men die for their faith in Tatelaya one night<\/p>\n

Yet, God doesn\u2019t die<\/p>\n

Yet,\u00a0 snakes and scorpions chiseled my grandmothers focus to a string<\/p>\n

Yet, I sleep<\/p>\n

I sleep knowing bacon is my biggest fear<\/p>\n

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