I haven't said a word to anyone since I got up this morning I haven't checked the internet, read the paper, or listened in on my neighbours' chit-chat my lips get tighter the longer they stay shut, my teeth go rusty in my mouth my body is trapped in a mirror its habitual lack of appetite intact May noise squeezes in under the door mixed with dirt with suspicious inflammations outside the world's gone mad but life is another matter watching mirrors darken, sheets of paper grow old I open my window to a narrow patch of sky birds skim over concrete rooftops fly away then or waste time but tell me: who can reach the limit? remain detached? transform himself utterly?
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I haven't said a word to anyone
since I got up this morning
I haven't checked the internet, read the paper, or listened in
on my neighbours' chit-chat
my lips get tighter the longer they stay shut, my teeth
go rusty in my mouth my body is trapped in a mirror
its habitual lack of appetite intact
May noise
squeezes in under the door
mixed with dirt with suspicious inflammations
outside the world's gone mad
but life is another matter
watching mirrors darken, sheets of paper grow old
I open my window to a narrow patch of sky
birds skim over
concrete rooftops
fly away then
or waste time
but tell me: who can
reach the limit?
remain detached?
transform himself utterly?
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