Our whole life a translation
the permissible fibs
and now a knot of lies
eating at itself to get undone
Words bitten thru words
meanings burnt-off like paint
under the blowtorch
All those dead letters
rendered into the oppressor's language
Trying to tell the doctor where it hurts
like the Algerian
who has walked from his village, burning
his whole body a cloud of pain
and there are no words for this
except himself
- Oppression
- Colonisation
- Feminism
- Societal deceit
- Failure of language
- Burning man
- Pain,
- Blowtorch burning paint
- Auroboros (snake eating it's tail)
- Simile
- Metaphor
- Assonance "his whole body a cloud of pain"
Burning body to express the pain that can't be verbally explained, "words bitten thru words", the continuous cycle of lie buying lie
- Suppression
- Frustration
- Free verse
- Enjambment (run on lines)
- No formal rhyme structure