My mother used to pray,
\nmy sister wore miniskirts,
\nmy aunt would tie her headscarf softly.
\nMy father used to come home drunk,
\nwe used to go for liquor together
\nnext door.<\/p>\n
Ko\u00e7o Efendi recites the Holy Quran,
\nMadame Aspasia used to knead Easter buns.
\nNo one would ask anyone why.
\nThey used to spoil us,
\nwe'd take it to the top
\nTo look at Istanbul from above.<\/p>\n
Kevork Effendi
\ncoffee roasted in the street
\nI remember-
\nThey say smell is memory,
\nThey are right.
\nChairs would wait in front of the door
\nlike people.<\/p>\n
When the sardines and sardines are strung
\nlike a rope.
\nthe bottom of the bottle.
\nIt would be evening,
\nthe neighborhood would slow down.<\/p>\n
Avram the grocer used to make lakerda from toric,
\nI remember that red color
\nlike it was yesterday.
\nChildren nowadays
\nwar games as alien as
\nwas not life.<\/p>\n
He rang the bell every day, *Leon Burudo;
\nif the door doesn't open
\nwouldn't stay on the landing-
\nno one was kept waiting in Balat.<\/p>\n
Yasef used to swindle Solomon,
\nwe'd laugh together;
\neven shame
\nwould be lightened by sharing.<\/p>\n
I don't know why we're tormenting Albert
\nwhen we didn't know,
\nI found out later:
\nmediocre ones
\nthe smart ones
\nhe could never tolerate it.<\/p>\n
Now I ask myself:
\nAm I the only one who remembers all this?,
\nor
\nwas it easier not to remember
\nfor all of us?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Now I ask myself: Am I the only one who remembers all this, or was it easier for all of us not to remember?<\/p>","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":281799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-281798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-yazarlar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281801,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281798\/revisions\/281801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}