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From: Ancient Infants (1980)
We'll be Back at Night
as non-existent as we were within them.
Then like shadows we'll elude, then as if hunted by other
remorse we'll die.
In vain the glances that will await us. In vain the bodies
that will desire us. We will no longer be we.
There will be others behind us. Before us. Nothing.
We will have but one face in the night
that face on their papers will not be ours.
We will elude the crowd in dark glasses,
eyeless we will elude the fog, we will elude the trees.
Without suspicions in windows we will change
shirts and vests. Has this Paul gone, we'll ask.
We'll get on buses, get off at the docks.
Desireless we'll drink. We'll have no dreams
We'll see no ships passing in the depths of the window.
Trains widening the lands. We'll not see our death.
Translated by Maria Consta
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