Breaking Up
The only meaning, he says, is that there is no meaning.
A horse muzzle and a horseshoe hanging off the nail
on the wall. Big flies pinned on the table. The barber enters
to shave the dead man, who turns toward the wall. The barber
looks at himself in the bookcase glass. He shaves himself.
The ugly woman brings a white napkin. She hugs the barber.
The shaving lather drips on the carpet. The flies with the pins
fly away. Outside, the train passes full of suitcases with
stamps from various checkpoints.
Manolis Aligizakis 