Dark As Tar/Donker Als Teer Alex Deforce A thought hard enough changes the look of things in many ways A slow dark won’t stop for three days All 42 ways to cut an apple have long been forgotten A woman in Beirut with translucent skin looks straight at the sun won’t even squint won’t even blink What was known before the age of mirrors: the skeleton of ____ was known it was known where every bone of ____ was and which one hurt most the hurt from falling on ice was known but lost by most In this new age and time men, women and beyond recognize colours by their smell The smell of diesel is the smell of movement Most movement now requires no footsteps Only tourists from the past point out rainbows in dusty coffee bars reading books in optimized languages of a mere ten characters No need to be going and leaving and looking for a rainbow the rainbow is here, day and night greyscaled in the sunlight scales of violet in the moonlight No wolves survive this war Flags change colour with each war They say: “Don’t cry over anything that can’t cry over you” Many dry their eyes with flags unknown “Be careful, everybody is hungry” said the beaten woman to her virgin daughter along the dead sea, folks feed of the salt sucked from their fingers Nobody mentioned this war, this here war is life
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