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the concrete bunnies | the group of sound and poetry
demo [compilation, 2006]


[hollow obscure]

i am a father to myself
i was one
before i became him
mother?
who fed me when i was still sucking
by getting my milk from a dream
from the streets and the ghetto
that gave birth to this noise
i am a mother though
i fail to recall
any kind of coition
a pang that has brought all of us
to the thick certainty of the fog
i am a brother of my own
a sister and brother to the other
woman i can‘t recognize
(i have seen her one time)
i am
a baby of my own
conceived
in a sleepwalking dream
i do not know
when this life will come to its end
how will this kind of me disengage
from the world of his close ones
from the shape of his distant ones

hollow
obscure
axis denied


Translated by Aleksandra Fomina
This poem taken from the forthcoming book Lakeland by Tomas S. Butkus

© Tomas S. Butkus, 2012
© Aleksandra Fomina, 2012


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