Excerpt from

Belly Dancing - Tel Aviv March 2002



1

Hakim is singing and I am swinging my cane.

The coins around my hips jingle just

in the right places and deepen the beat.

And I ignore for the moment the way

the chains on the Merchava tanks

going into Kalkilya

jingle just like me.




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