Friday, October 5, 2018

PET SHOPS Comments

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Pet shops.
The internment camp
from my childhood.

Guinea pigs. Parrots. Canaries.
The sickly scent of captivity.
Sawdust of events.

At home I spat out depression.
Antigone the cat didn't show up any more.
A mousetrap from Verdun
and then all the way to Auschwitz.

I didn't know how it would end
when I signed up for life.
A volunteer.
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Ewa Lipska
cat childhood depression
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