Omar Khayyam 13

Juan Cole 02/04/2012

Where’s the smoke
from my fire around here?
Where’s the profit
on my investment around here?
As for the guy
who called me a bar fly,
now really, where’s the bar
around here?

trans. Juan Cole
from Whinfield 13

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page