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I Knocked My Head against the Wall

As a child

I put my finger in the fire

to become

a saint.

 

As a teenager

every day I would knock my head against the wall.

 

As a young girl

I went out through a window of a garret

to the roof

in order to jump.

 

As a woman

I had lice all over my body.

They cracked when I was ironing my sweater.

 

I waited sixty minutes

to be executed.

I was hungry for six years.

 

Then I bore a child,

they were carving me

without putting me to sleep.

 

Then a thunderbolt killed me

three times and I had to rise from the dead three times

without anyone’s help.

 

Now I am resting

after three resurrections.

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Anna Swir
1909-1984 / Polish
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