[Photo: Pedro Duarte]

[England, 2006]

 

Sitting in the dark

A crack in every window

Ants investigate

 

……..

 

Against my own will

Hours spent with petty minds

And their dirty mouths

 

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No feelings or words

People tend flowers under

That strange lamp the sun

 

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Mouth wide nine years old

There’s no pain without memory

Run away fast now

 

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Brought up to give up

And raised to fall down you find

Now there’s no answer