my god

how many times was it too late

and how long has it been hopeless

i know just leave it

come on let’s leave

instead let’s go

over the text

which i don’t even understand

but it feels sad

with all its conditionals and past tenses

let’s get lost

look for each other

in our questions

about where we are

in wildfires

in cyanide pollution

in forest clearing

in our mutually exclusively needs

in the humorless passing of time

let’s go

until the cruise ship captain

announces that we’ve just arrived

at the dolphins’ habitat

and a blond retiree finally

fills a pink straw hat

with her vomit

let the meaning shine

above our heads

which we can’t look

at directly

let’s go only forward

crawling over scattered gray blocks of

worn sentence structures

with great effort

if upon touching the imprint of leaves in the concrete

never to ask where the birch forest is in summer hailstorms

just bring your movements

let’s go

to the edge of the text

toward the exit

walking in unison silently

with dry eyes

a cool tempo

as the

flower falling out of the window

sinking white thought in the brain of depth

in this sentence

in which everything is like

what nothing is in others

let’s go like this

because i know

as much about you

as blind men do about shadows

you’re with me

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Translation by Timea Sipos