Let’s have the morning breakfast because you are my guest today , let’s go to overcrowded cafes , full of employees and jobless people , they usually have their breakfast or drink their coffee slowly during the whole morning in the cafes because our city is classified as the first tourist one .Its tourists are its young and old people and we will spend our morning in the café as well.
          To spend the time , let me read a poem of Jacque Brever named “ the morning breakfast” , the poet was writing his poems in Paris cafes and its public gardens .If you don’t know French , I’ll read it in Arabic, translated by Nazar Qabani who gave it another name “the journal” . He translated it into Arabic to help those who don’t learn French , like you because of their teacher’s permanent absence . Then he subjoined it to his collection without indicating to the translation .You may listen to it sung by Magda Alrumi .
          If you don’t like poetry and you prefer English , let’s read a short story for the American writer Ron Carlson entitled “ a journal reading” what do you say ?
          Ah you don’t know English , never mind because I intend to steal this story to translate it into Arabic and give it the name “ the morning breakfast” , just to change the titles and you will be a writer , anyhow the papers don’t pay for the writer’s rights , you steal others’ ideas and the publishers steal your rights .
         You don’t like my story , do you ? Is it a bad one ? Don’t care , I can call it a relation which is considered as plastic arts , it isn’t a story , but you want it to be so . you should be a painter if you draw any traces in an elegant frame to be exhibited in a gallery to allege it’s an art , and if you have got friends as reviewers , they will write on your paintings.
          What do you say ? you don’t want to listen to anything from French or English literature , so let’s spend our time in reading Arabic newspapers , don’t believe I‘ll
buy them , we’ll borrow them from the seller against only a half dirham , after reading them we’ll give them back to him and he himself will return them back in the next morning , all of them behave like that , I told you that the unemployment is the mother of invention , didn’t I ?
          you prefer to look at the passers-by and comment on them , don’t you ? so that , we’ll sit in a café dominated on a public street , but I have to warn you first , if you see a young man pulling out a knife to threaten a girl to give him her handbag and her false jewelries , don’t move , because the girl will give him her hand bag with a shaking hand and a pale smile . and the scene will pass peacefully , but when you behave curiously , unexpected thing will happen to you. Act like a policeman when he passes by such scenes with closed eyes . justifying that his duty is over . It is a wisdom itself , or behave like me , drink your coffee before it gets cold .
          What do you think ? the waiter brought a cold coffee , don’t care , it will be cold , anyhow because we will spend the whole morning in the café . put it in front of you, pretending it is tasteful . don’t drink your coffee quickly , more haste , less speed . If you don’t like this café , let’s go to another one because the city is full of cafes , between each two cafes there is another café .
          Let’s read the subtitles of the first page of this newspaper . Are you ready to listen to the news of the nation ?ok let’s start.
          - Profis Mrofis has saved from an attack with bombs for the second time during a couple of weeks . Do you know who is Profis Mrofis ? well , he is a general seized the power through a military coup. He sentenced on the elected prime minister who himself won the election through forgery and bribe to death
          - Tens of Lebanese people are killed because of Boeing jet fall on its way to Beirut . The cause is so simple , the plane is very old and the money of its maintenance has been stolen by the company supervisors .
Israeli bombers killed six Palestinians , included four children and injured twenty passers - by when it launched a rocket towards their car in Ghaza .
          The news doesn’t need any comment because we used to listen to such news every morning since three years
The American occupation troops killed thirty Iraqis and captured hundred and sixty in northern Baghdad
They are the Lords of the world , the Cowboys , they do whatever they want without any deterrent . They make the world a universal farm to fatten their cows , and we are all belonging to them .
- Finding a new collective cemetery in Iraq .
          You have to learn the best way of ruling , my friend, because you may be lucky one day to be the president of our republic kingdom , sooner , what do you say? I am not joking .
- International report says that 351 .000 Arabic children carry the virus of AIDS .
It means that we are adapted with the wisdom “ cleanliness is a part of worship “
Do you want to listen more ? NO , let’s change the subject .
And now , how should we look for a job?

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Tranlated by : Jawad Wadi