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Erminia Passannanti

"the tunnel syndrome"

to accept as true an improbable disease,
the arches lesions associated to
my morning entering
in a tunnel
with retrospective evidence
of potentially lethal
actions.

fortunate patient
I, with my unilateral
abnormalities, heart beats
still in my veins, slowing down
at the elbow-wrist segment,
conducting fantasies
to the brain.


slowing down, the sentimental nerves
defecting in me,
the median, the
annular fingers, respectively,
retract.


an incidental finding.
and there it stands, the evidence of
a double crush.
no sensory
communication detected
from the black to the white.



Tunnel of insensitive latency,
possibly taking me down a slope,
to the same day, the same light. promising
entrapment of both my hands,
the collision of both my palms,
the distance of
which ranges
at this very minute,
from 1 to 2 centimetres.

Such a
Procedure, the being
kissed repeatedly
on my wrists.
kiss kiss kiss.
it may be of value
as an easily performed rapid technique
to set in motion my asymptomatic hands.






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