CITY GATES
Elias Khoury

      He was a man and he was a stranger,
     He didn't tell his story to anyone, he didn't know he was
a story to be told. He thought, he used to think, the way we think, and he was like everyone was, but he didn't tell anyone, because he didn't know that the things that had happened could be told to anyone.
     He was a man and he was a stranger,
     He doesn't remember how his story began, because he doesn't know. He saw himself in the middle of the story and he didn't ask how it began, because he was busy with its ending. And when the ending came he found that he didn't know the ending either, and that the others didn't know the ending, because the ending can't be known, because the ending is an ending.

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