We have great facilities here. polished rods, double-coated with grease and oilโ specialized wires for electrocuting; pliers, easy to handle, precisely sharp. and burners, we got rollers made of walnut wood and nails of varied sizes. A machine, portable and specially designed, with valves to insert truth- attached to a pit, through a pipe, where…
The grief of my country is sitting in the corner of my stomach. A pigheaded bacteriumโ it is going nowhere. A garrison in my small intestines;a dogged settler army of worms laying ambush. I cannot throw up, there are razor-wires dipped in my throat. The goddamn grief blocked! From the broken spoon,I have been eating Herr Coloniser! I will digest you; your bones with fluoric acidsโwill dissolve you in…
I. why elsewhen elsedo you put our narratives on a weighing scale?exceptwhen there’s your familiar bloodpolitically differentiated from our familiar bloodtogether calling out for help on our streets.(pray ask when has blood ever left my streets?)Quite a time for you to suddenly wake up, no? I heard your reality is throbbing like an inconsolable ache…
How often do you actually remember him? You left the dessert half-eaten when suddenly his smile flashed in front of you. I do not. Instead, I devour my meals, my days, I spend engrossed in books where lovers unite in the end or don’t. Or die. Or are victorious against a tyrant. Someday I’ll know,…