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Common Knowledge
on the street in a towering summer heat-wave a young girl hops with her hands over her ears her behaviour is a little odd there is something beautiful about her oddness and a so-called beauty this gives people the feelings they want but they pay no attention to the cause and the source of her actions but I know I have mastered such common knowledge as a boy on the way home from the swimming pool the same movements would help me get rid of any last remaining water in my eyes or ears hotly it would trickle away and I would then be able to hear the surrounding world again just like the young girl here before me I’m sure she’s feeling pretty good right now hopping with her hands over her ears on the street in a towering summer heat-wave such common knowledge as this has helped me find a way into a poetry of essentials © Translation: 2004, Simon Patton |
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