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Spilled milk.

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The further we go, the
whiter the landscape becomes.

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Snow, salt, snow, salt,
and the fog of forgetting,

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where you are with yourself.

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Mnemosyne is
looking for a photo.

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A few boxes contain decades.

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Pictures lie face down
like soldiers on the field.

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Witnesses to those who
know this language.

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What does this
language do to you?

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Evacuee, front, bombs.

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With the war come, new words.

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And the new law, too, only one
egg per child while officers

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fight over delicacies
from France.

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Memory gives us a push.

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Go on then.

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Run.

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Keep up.

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But I just stare
and can't remember

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why I'm wearing this dress.

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What am I doing here?

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These people?

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And whose shadow is that?

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The pears in your school bag.

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The turkey's feathers
beneath your palm.

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A snowball attack
and dreams of Africa.

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Summer and winter slowly
erase their borders.

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They become one big season.

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The season of childhood,
where you are with yourself,

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of yourself, in yourself.

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Like never again afterwards.

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Blind spots are
sometimes false memories

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where the cloth wears thin.

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It will tear, someone
will certainly say.

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And we darn these holes.

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Change our memory
like an old coat,

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so that you can still put it
on, so that it can still be worn

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by the girl who comes after us.

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The further we go, the
whiter the landscape becomes.

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She tilts her head over
the glass of spilt milk.

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Mnemosyne.

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And this poem also was
written as an homage

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to a Barbara Frischmuth.

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She was an Austrian
prose writer.

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And she died last year.

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And once I had to introduce
her at the festival as a city

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writer of Graz.

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And I decided to introduce
her through a poem.

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The poem was based on her book
about her childhood in the early

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or war, post-war,
second world war years

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in small town in Austria,
where her family had a hotel.

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But I think today,
it reads like as if

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about the war we
are having today.

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