Nor the strangers’ questions. * I am now like the sea Looking at people only. I am not smiling or laughing. I am not speaking any words or signs. I am not asking, of course, any questions. * I do not want to throw a stone at the ship: The captain’s ship, The naked women And the dog that does not stop barking, But time has thrown me like a stone On the beach of hell. * The sea hates chess. Its favorite hobby is to sleep, deep sleep, But if it wakes up from its sleep feeling terrified It will begin suffocating the pawns, the queens, the kings, The bishops and the knights One by one. Its mind does not become comfortable at all Unless it ends up suffocating and drowning them, All of them.
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