Foot of pyrenees
weeping
wiping your glasses
walter
jesus wept
you were betrayed
by camarades
sitting
in cafeterias
in california
announcing
beautiful benjamin's
tears
ours
as we wander
around arcades
beginning of new
century collapsed
Tal Afar
2005
books burnt
by american
in military
uniform
practice
crash
culture
with armoured personnel
carriers
of present
plague
riding winds
into rooms
we will
not know
bodies atomised
Bakouba
buried
underneath
forward
bases
benjamin behind
every artifact
of culture
barbarism
comes to crush
circle
within circle
witness walter
shake bottle
before window
knowing enough
enough
death to share
with assembled
mourners moan
night
after
night
walter wept
knowing too
much in moment
within moment
forgetting
about remembering
how he
could see
without spectacles
dreamt daily
what we
live
now
dying
now dying
let me
detail
how
a people die
not
by bombs
but
by bradley
tanks tearing fabric
carpets
of chronologies
created
in struggle
dearest sister
in struggle
dearest sister
walter witnesses
holding spectacles
so
he can see
perfectly
dancing on waters
of Portbou
port
failed
him he
perished
in panic
french
failed
him he
knew way
with baggage
manuscripts
mementos
him he
we
murdered
ô him he
we murdered
sailing
on sea
of skin
's shore
line
under line this
this day
weaving words
from wind
will you
walk on
witness
camarade sister
it will
not stop
raining
within wretched
bodies
bodies
benjamin
broke with books
suspicious
remembering revolvers
how
you held
tripped
trigger
lights on
& off
fountains
of flesh
beloved brother
beloved brother
break boat
down here
portbou
create
confidence
in corpses
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