<p><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">In the imagination that I will never grow attached</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">In the imagination that I will be lonely</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">In the imagination that I will be cut off</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">I look around at the streets, the buildings, and the people</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">It’s a true imagination</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">Heartless</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">Solitude</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">and disconnected—</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">time and space unfold before me</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">The river, the birds, the flowers—</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">even the air feels gloomy, making my steps heavy</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">A suffocating tension</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">Security cars, crashed cars, cars that won’t yield—</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">busy taxis block my path</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">Silently, or with only conversations on cell phones</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">this early autumn morning</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">Her gaze and humming</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">passing by me as indifferently as yesterday</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">turn all of this on its head</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">They caress me</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">Like the voice of my father</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">whom I miss so dearly.</span></p>
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