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    The unfathomable void

    And I scratch nervously the trembling lines,
    I slay the white wrinkled papers,
    I cut off mercilessly the head of words,
    as if to get revenge of them.
    I' m pretty sure,
    There exists something,
    A very thing,
    A Not a thing.
    However, I'm not able to cross the bridge
    between my feelings and my thoughts
    between my thoughts and my language
    to recognize what it is.
    Language has become bare, childless,
    rotten in deep anger.
    Language has become self-destructive
    unable to cross the bridge between two lands
    between two hearts.
    She devours herself,
    and breaks the mirror
    not to see her ugly face.
    Is it me?
    Is it the very thing?
    Is it language itself?
    And in the presence of the absence
    we all kneel on our knees
    praying for a miracle to save us
    praying for a new Alphabetic
    that fits the new world
    because the old words are bombed with anger.
    A new Alphabetic
    that is not horizontal ,nor vertical, or graphic,
    Able to express
    to order the terrible mess
    to resurrect from Lethe as a Greek goddess
    reminding me of the bounty sounds
    that have been muted
    when the first man
    has cried and died in distress.

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    War corroding language itself! Thanks, Caddy, for this powerful poem!
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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