Irremovable Vision
After many postponements of our dreams
I’d always think of a smelting, knowledgeable furnace
with thousands of workers cleaning its teeth,
feeding it steel and coal.
A smelting furnace that will smoke as much
as we haven’t smoked the last few years,
that won’t cut its cigarettes in half
that won’t stop its craving half way
that will produce enough rebar
to tie together all the great scaffolds
that will reach up to the sky.
Manolis Aligizakis 