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Moulded Child



Here is my child moulded by my hands, chiselled by my chisels, by my hammer

that sang, that cacked over the handles of my knives.

But what a terrible, twisted child, wrapped in stone like waves!

I do not recognize this child of my sweat, of my tortures, of my heart that panted

when my hands, armed and nailed to a chisel, did not know how to stop.

Wild light that wipes away sweat and palpitations you blind me and I no

longer recognize my onetime joy which overflowed in the hammerings of my mad love.

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