Exactly Now
Now that you have nothing to say nothing
to show to emphasize to defend now
that everything is lost (and not just for you) exactly now
you may speak roaming among the
tools of torture turning around with your
small finger the meaningless wheels of
broken clocks or that huge hovering
non-resistant wheel still a bit wet
as they raised it from the sunken ship –
exactly now pulling ropes from the ceiling
listening to the sound of pulleys above you
in vague places like the stars during that night
when we came back from the countryside and in
the marble courtyard they had set in exact order
two rows of black wooden highchairs
and in the middle the king’s golden closed casket
without any flags without the crown and the sword
Manolis 