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Andrej Sen-Senkov

                              (Tajikistan,1968)

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Airborne Tennis

when they run out of women's names
they'll start naming the hurricanes
after russian tennis stars
safina kuznetsova dementieva
petrova sharapova zvonareva
kleybanova kirilenko vesnina
pavlyuchenkova

by then most of them will have died
and the ones who are still alive
hearing their lethal last names
will press their arthritis-disfigured fingers
into the insides of imaginary tennis balls

down there they're like women who never gave birth

 

 

State Dietology

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east german stasi
had a method for driving people insane
when a person would leave the house
agents would sneak inside
they wouldn't break anything
they wouldn't trash anything
they would just move around
little very personal things 
knick-knacks photographs books
this would go on for months

sometimes when grey animals fight over food
they swallow so quickly as soon as they get the chance
and then vomit it up
in order to eat later in peace
somebody's little very personal things
knick-knacks
photographs
books

Translation: Ainsley Morse 


        

A Border Crossing As Long As Alzheimer's

 

first you forget the names of places
then nouns
then verbs
out of I love you
love is left
then it disappears too
no
in the end the word will suddenly start looking for
the nearest orifices
and will crawl into oblivion
like a border-guard in a white parka
crawling into the snow that doesn't belong to him

everything will go calm
when inside my slowly freezing little soldier
the last
warm letter snaps

but it will have time to remember you

September 11, 2017

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