Steven Godin’s Reviews > Report from the Besieged City and Other Poems > Status Update

I did not catch
the last transport

I stayed behind in a town
that is not a town

without morning
or evening newspapers

it doesn't have
prisons
clocks
water

I enjoy
great vacations
outside of time

I go for long walks
through avenues of burned houses
avenues of sugar
of broken glass
and rice

I could write a treatise
on the sudden transformation
of life into archeology