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You learn everything from women
the experience of paralysis
a cry for peace

Dressed in purple pyjamas and smoking a borrowed cigarette
kissed by Boby
behind a dirty windscreen of a minibus

A woman protects herself with an umbrella
brandishes a sword while shouting slogans
an expression of calm anticipation

Her lover
mostly unseen
self-contained and spare
dances in our heads

The experience of paralysis