June 2006
Atta Swamp, Hadera
Esther, queen of the swamp!
I adorned you with crowns
Of blossoms and thorns
Everything is a gift from me to you
It's all for you, beloved
What more can I ask?
May everything be
Not as it is

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Esther, I am your slave

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Esther, queen of the swamp
Feeds on weeds and sorrel
I'll give you signs
To put up in a museum
Why must you pasture
In foreign fields
While the orchard is rich?
Why should you there be seen?
Dine in the garden like a queen.
Why go to a swamp
Full of prickles, to pick
Sorrel from the mud?
My orchard is plentiful
And fragrant, you won't even sniff.
To end the monolog, alas
I wish it to be a dialog
But that's the way it is.
This is not the end
Only the beginning.
Uri.

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I fell for you
For a tin doll
For donkey ears
For camel teeth
I fell for you
Returning chorus
Remember: how I tuned you that tune?
You I love
Uri.

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Iwill love you forever

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Beloved
To breath you…
To smell…
To hold…
I shall love you so, Esther
What do you fear?

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Esther!
Without you I wish not live.

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Why Black?
Because this is all I had.
I Love you so so much,
Uri

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I love you, always
I will love you forever
Love you so much
You know not how much
Esther

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If only you saw the zucchini
It's already bearing
Still small
When it grows, maybe you'll eat from it.

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Love you

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You

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Instead of strolling with me
You go and work in the park.

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The fruit of the ground
The fruit you love
The fruit of the Lord
Come,even with your bodyguard, and feast.
And everyone would be satisfied.

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Sweetheart
What do I need with fortunes
If you run from one to the other?
Half Arabic
Half Hebrew

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Esther
I am not your foe, but your aficionado
And you hate me, so angry and furious.
I'm angry and furious too
But for love it matters not.
You take them down, and I put up new ones.
You like eggplants
So you said.
I think you know not
What you like.

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Sweetheart!
Since you took not the purse and coat
I understand you want them not.
This coat I got you in the valley, remember?
You must think I see you not.
You are of course mistaken.
Casquette, plus sunglasses, around the corner
Saturday last.
I recognize you by your profile
Seeing as I know it.
Besides, you see all this matters not
Given that I love you so,
You know not how much, and it matters not
What your job is.

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I love you, and you hate me just as much.
And that's a shame

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I love you, and you hate me just as much.
And that's a shame

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Honey
Shouldn't we start talking
Instead of pullingdown signs?
What say you?

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I fathered the child
You sent to another world. Uri.

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Dearest, Esther
I come not to spy on you
But to remind you
That I love you
And that no one is better
Than me for you

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I have nothing and no one
If I have you not.
Yours, with love, Uri

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I understand not
What you fear so.

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We're perfect together, think of it.

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I will love you without limits.

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Will love you from now on.

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Love you to the very end, Uri.

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You, beloved
Have the blossoms
And me?
I have thorn bouquets, and nothing more.

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No words can express my great love for you

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I love you, Uri.

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I cooked some sorrel today.

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I only love you.
I only love you.

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Esther, the whore from the riches

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You've never tasted sorrel as good as mine.

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You can't measure love.

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I am agonizing for you.

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I love you.
You are exceptional and so am I
That's why we're so good for each other.
Yours always, Uri.

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No one has and no one will
love you as much as I do

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Esther, without you I don't want to live
I love you, as always It frightens you…