http://gulags.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] gulags.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] bucuresti 2010-01-23 11:07 pm (UTC)

[ the smell of ********, bony hands groping out for meager ******, the unbearable ****. ]

No, I -

[ the ******* and their *******, pinpricks in exchange for more ****, the **********, *****; hand-prints on the wall, shuffling, crying, white noise in his head. knocked backwards, flinching and disgusted, the remainders of the ********.

the hand on the counter slips, rises, touches the side of his face the way he does when tracing the outlines of buildings in old, black & white pictures.

пачкаюсь я, подымаясь*. ]


*in reference to a poem called the last ravine (http://web.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Demo/texts/ravine.html). the line i used is "i am stained as i climb".

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