I know the secrets of open roads

Remi Raji

I know the secrets of open roads,
the pulse of urchins of the blood
the gash and the gripe of highway paths
and potholes, I know the secrets of open roads,
where death hawks her passion per kobo

There’s a trembling in the tar
the colour of the stain-soaked air

I can taste the blood-breath of flying roads
the last fragrance of flowers in mourning.
In the sun and in the rain, there’s the pore of pain,
the pomade of the spleen …
I know the secrets of open traps

There’s the death in the streets
and there are the deaths without injuries,
the simple ossification of the soul,
the road bleeds and the bleeding is unending …

There are also cracks in the cabinet of roads
Bedbugs and soldier-ants fill the house of hunger.

And here still is the sodom smell of things …

LitNet: 26 July 2006

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