Today I was thinking
if my brother-in-law Ismail
had not driven over
a body in the street
on a dark night in Izmir
and he does drive too fast
but may not have been the first
would he have phoned my sister
teaching Armenian children
at a school in Moscow
now the Russian Federation
to say to her
after so many years
of hesitation on his part
Susanna let's get married
oh and by the way
depending how my trial goes
I may have to be
in prison for a while