Gabrielė Labanauskaitė Biography
Gabrielė Labanauskaitė was born in Lithuania in 1980. She is a poet, prose writer, playwright and book critic. She has a master degree in theory and history of literature from Vilnius University. She's currently working on a PhD about the narrative construction of stage plays and teaches history and theory of playwriting at the Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy in Vilnius. In 2008 she completed the script writer's course at the New York Gotham Writers Workshop.
They will take your picture again
In this kitchy sunset
Among monolithic cliffs and mists of smog
For a pretty Japanese postcard.
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As in the Mayan calendar, the years gone by
Add up to zero
Signifying nothing more than an empty shell.
Our existence
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Yesterday I saw trout swim about
And spawn between the vocal chords
Words made from letters, weave a net
From consonants and vowels
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They drink champagne in river valleys
And bubbles rise in river valleys to the top
They turn the other cheek in river valleys
In river valleys they forget it all and stop.
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I lost my brother
He slid under the ice
I lost my brother
When he was small, he really liked
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