By I buried your face, someplace by the side of the new road so I would not trip over it every morning or on evening strolls still, I am helplessly drawn to the scene of this crime for fear of forgetting the sum of your splendor then there's also the rain that loosens the soil to reveal a bewitching feature awash with emotion an eye, perhaps tender or a pale, becalmed cheek a mouth tight with reproach or lips pursed in a deathless smile other times you are inscrutable worse, is when I seem to lose you and pick at the earth like a scab frantic, and faithful, like a dog. About the Author Oscar Wilde, Friedrich Nietzsche, Mark Twain and have something in common. They're all authors of aphorisms, provocative and often humorous bite-size thoughts... Lababidi's aphorisms, by his own definition, are 'complete fragments'. Witty, resonant, and precise, they capture the contradictory nature of human truths and sentiments, reflecting 'the soul's dialogue with itself'. James Geary, Europe editor for TIME magazine and author of The World in a Phrase, calls them "elegant, thoughtful and wise." Egyptian-Lebanese is one of a very few contemporary writers to have their work included in the Encyclopedia of the World's Aphorists by James Geary, due November 2007. His essays and poems have been published in journals world-wide in the USA, UK, Australia, Canada, Middle East and in online literary reviews. Lababidi was the featured poet in November 2006 on RAWI: Radius of Arab American Writers Excerpts from article by Dale Jungk, Editor-in-Chief Sun Rising Press, on-line source.
