bombs stench rats cracks
we were animals not civilized human beings
hiding and trying to breath a black heavy curtain
enveloping from all sides i couldn’t distinguish
who was the enemy who the friend
i remember
i was running the crocodile had open voracious
teeth under me a red dripping siphoning gorge
i kept on running and running sweat/anguish
when by rushing half flying into the thick bush
carnivorous trees entangled my feet sticky
moving branches from which i could not detach
but the earth opened to swallow us and we fell and
fell in the most enduring ride down to the middle of
earth or was it the dimly painted murky hell
when i woke up, i remember i was less than six
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