Crash, breaking surf, blow oh unfathomable
wind and smooth out for me the sound of
so many words, so much empty talk that
is lodged in my head, a dictatorship
of tonalities, intonations, shreds of language
spoken by others, enough to drive a person crazy
echoing, all of them, their graffiti
on the walls of my soul, a punishment from
god, a cell on death row, in which I count
the hours I still have to go, in that bare
room and the laughing machine is
always on - oh breaking surf,
waves, wash if possible pound
this beach clean, so that what can remain
will be the white sand receptive again
in which sun or water, shadow-clouds or
a swooping down wind can write
its same always other secret
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