Papusza - Cloud Rat

I’ve told you time and again

The stretching rigid pavement hums

Cars broken down

Shallow pit that the horse digs

The virus still exists, a gift the rat gave me

Small box, unwanted, and forced open

Isolated, you keep me alive

Inconsolable rag doll, deaf and dumb

I’ll give myself once you leave me

On the poppy tablecloth, knot in my womb

The blood enters the water and it wanders

I watch it wander