The Benefactors Of The Little Box

Portrait of Vasko Popa
Vasko Popa 1922–1991

We'll return the little box Into the arms Of her inconspicuously honest properties

We won't do anything Against her will We'll simply take her apart

We'll crucify her On her own cross

Piece her bloated emptiness And let ooze All the blue cosmic blood she gathered

We'll sweet her clean of stars And anti-stars And everything else that rots inside her

We won't make her suffer We'll simply put her together again

We'll give back to the little box Her pure inconspicuousness

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