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norma

meltwater soup

we sort it at dusk, we sort it at noon in mornings we sort it at night

we sort and we sort we dig a channel

through **** there is never enough room for them

 

the man on the speaker

keeps the records

he writes he writes when the light thins to nothing anymore he writes

 

your pale knuckles they write

your brittle ankles

they steps outside the bars

 

the siberian sky watches over us

it whistles our questions back

it whistles our hundred thoughts

digging deeper into the

 

meltwater soup

we sort it at dusk, we sort it in mornings at midday we sort it at night

we sort and we sort

 

the man on the speaker

keeps the records

he writes he writes when the light thins to nothing anymore he writes

 

we dig a channel through hoar

there is never enough room for us

 

he shouts

dig deeper

 

the rest of you, harmonize

it raises the norma

his eyes show nothing

 

dig deeper

the rest of you harmonize

you others

dig deeper he says

 

meltwater soup at daybreak

we sort you at night

we sort you at midday and mornings

we sort you at dusk

we sort and we sort

 

the man on the speaker

keeps the records

he writes he writes when the light thins to nothing anymore he writes

 

he shouts

make it all seem useful

 

**** is architecture from Kolyma

 

he shouts

file the reports

then rise

and dishevel them again

 

there is so much more room

for expansion

 

meltwater soup in mornings

we sort you at night

we sort you at midday

 

**** is architecture from Kolyma

 

we sort you at dusk

in mornings

we sort and sort

 

**** is architecture from Kolyma

his accounting is perfect

his small corrections strike you

we meet every quota

 

the man on the speaker

your pale knuckles

 

it whistles our questions

it grants us the records

 

**** is architecture from Kolyma

 

your pale knuckles

your brittle ankles

filed

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Written by
giumbusluk
17
Published
Jan 30
Lines·Words
67·334
Notes

death fugue

Tags
#soviet#labor#forced#metaphor#work#overthinking#existential
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