Monday, September 27, 2010

stanzas

tell me how
to play
the game
of
bricks and stones
words and sounds
shouts and screams
or silence.

teach me how
to tell
a story
of
cocks and bulls
and marriage
games.

tell me how
to dream
and cry
eat hotpotch
of
red fantasies
and fade-outs.

teach me how
to fry
a fish
and
make a wish
that its babies
must stay alive.

tell me how
to light
a candle
and wander lonely
as a ghost
or a soul
offended.

tell me how
to write
a poem
when voices
scream
in my head
and people
cry their lungs
out for some
unjustified deaths.

teach me how
to stop crying
and writing
stuff
colonial english
and personal
perseverences
in
dark dusk light.

tell me how
to shut up
and listen
to silent voices
of dessention
and kick
the dust
and
kiss the dirt.

teach me how
to dance
and sing
and blow
horns
and pipes
tambourines
and wait
for
death
to come.

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