Aisha Kandisha[1]
from Tanger
to West Sahara
stronger than kif
spicier than majoun
it’s a beauty
bearing horror
hatching bedraggled
chicken in grottas
containing multitudes
forming foreign legions
sometime in the 50s
so the books say
35,000 were
married to her
most of them inmates
of the Ber Rechid asylum
in the year of 1953
she was particularly agile
calling to the wretched charmed ones
in their mothers’ voices
compared to her
Circe is just an ordinary bitch
seamen say
and polyhistorians agree
for when you see those
poor creatures sticking it into
the chapped soil
in the dried out river bed
as the kids
shower them with stones
you immediately know that no sorcery
or fqih can do the trick
because love
is always pain
that you share
with others.
[1] Aisha Kandisha is a Moroccan evil spirit that possesses only men.