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Barbara Carle / Fabio Scotto
Inhabiting your pauses
Filling your intervals
Like a client who gives
and you don’t pay him
you yourself a client
Your daily planner open on the table
as time shudders
on the clock hands
Summer is a promise
that I tear with my teeth
from your breasts bitten
beneath your teeshirt
It’s already one
Time always hurts
My voice is caught in my throat
“Someone’s at the door…
I’ll call you…
I can’t see you anymore”
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