This poem is taken from PN Review 208, Volume 39 Number 2, November - December 2012.
How to Watch a Solar Eclipse in a Bowl of Water
The unbearable lightness of being no one
- Slavoj Žižek
By day, stay close to home
speak in modulated tones.
If the paper seller's son is gone
don't ask after him.
Smile at the vegetable man's daughter
even if you wonder - is it she
who slips hartal notices
beneath coconuts, carrots?
Night after night
let the house disappear
the town
with it the island.
Beyond the sea
you may sense a lit planet
but know this darkness,
...
- Slavoj Žižek
By day, stay close to home
speak in modulated tones.
If the paper seller's son is gone
don't ask after him.
Smile at the vegetable man's daughter
even if you wonder - is it she
who slips hartal notices
beneath coconuts, carrots?
Night after night
let the house disappear
the town
with it the island.
Beyond the sea
you may sense a lit planet
but know this darkness,
...
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