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I came looking for love. I thought that love was the only refuge from the night bombardments. And I found that love couldn't save itself. Love lasts only a moment. It is rotted by time, it can't survive absence, the hours make it rancid, it's the slave of the glands, it's naked to the weather.

I take pleasure in the way the rain beats its wings on the
back of the floating city.

For days now my heart has wanted to swell
under a caress, a word.

One is the water of his own thirst,
the silence that hushes our tongue,
the bread, the salt, the amorous urge
of the air stirring in every cell.