Monday, 18 February 2019

bad air

[[ This started while reading  Ryszard Kapuściński, The Shadow of the Sun, where he describes the anxiety that comes with malaria. And wordplay: malaria as 'bad air' and even 'bad song'. ]]

a feeling of anxiety
I know no reason

I believe a curse 
has come upon me

I believe a spirit 
has entered me

I am fixed to earth
light is unbearable

the sound and smell 
the touch of others

I am cold as death 
and trembling  

hold me down with
all your weight

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