Transitions №7
Author: Galina Itskovich
8:46 AM: From Carolyn to Everyone
trauma comes too fast
ego is terrified
soul murderer
explosion
rape
Munk commercialized
mouth agape
media munchies melt on our jaded palate
lies lies lies
judged are those who are traumatized
a bomb exploding
9/11
darkness
stream
of unconsciousness
ego retreats
9:13 AM: From Emily to the World, IM
pool of blood
ICQ
IFF
over
war
baby’s crying no one responds
who’s responsible
all despondent
9:46 AM: From Michelle to whom it may concern
beating down on self-esteem
kernels of wisdom
personal trash can
twin towers inverted
as forewarned by Breughel
10:04 AM: From Pearl with love:
rape
rape
rape
loss
rape
loss
10: 50 AM: From Nina
SOS
domestic discord
mother yelling at kid
no time to moan or mope
or be sad
11:07 AM: From Pamela
having my head smashed
trapped in storm
mass graves
burn victims
ovum overflown
ovens galore
mounds of bodies
gore
caked-up blood
gas masks
huge biting dogs
a big boot stomping on the spirit
crashing the womb
falling into a deep and getting deeper dark hole
we won’t ever emerge whole
abandoned sense
beaten child
warring
frozen with fear
freezing
reversible global warming
no warm coat
storm cloud
betrayal
fetal position
begging for death
death-like
revenge
napalm — children running
children running from fireworks
buried under a weight
playing in sand and suddenly feeling buried
tornadoes
disaster fear
11:08 AM From Mrs Fridman to secular folk
dead bodies in aushwitzes one atop the other
car crash with teenagers
somebody suffocated in trunk
reality blocked
drunk
driving
diving for words
finding none
fake pearls
words
pores
dark clouds
11:56 AM: From Michal POW to Everyone:
I feel trapped under bodies
what’s up there?
and which way is up after all?
proprioception fails
soul in prison
cave
cavity
heaviness
darkness
THE HOLOCAUST
capslock
hollow casket
caustic soda in lungs
knife in the gut
knot
connotation’s nil
dark cloud
a sudden fall or being hit
falling ill
trying to run but can’t feel my feet
news highlights again
somebody new is endorsed
breaking news
people at the ER sliding door
having trouble breathing
broken turnstiles
attack
from the bottom of the well
walls walls walls
wars wars wars
wars prevail in the home country
disenchantment lawlessness
fear from waist down
natural disaster gone inside
hospital gown
cowering distance from darkness if you might
dances with various wolves sinister
sorcerers looking for exits
11:58 AM: Speaker
trauma is fast and furious
plays with no intermissions
From Ruth to Robert (via private text): will this C-lister ever end?
Robert to Ruth: just u wait they haven’t opened the envelope with this year yet
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