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10-READING CECCO’

READING CECCO’S S'i' fosse…

(To Kasia)

If i had the power of fire, i’d blow up explosives

If that of water, I’d drown the makers of sorrow,

If the high one of wind, from people’s brains

Blow cobwebs away — open your eyes, fools,

You can’t take it with you, why strut & fret?

Omnipotent, maybe destroy this stupid

Species, for a cleaner to come from fireflies,

Electric eels or hexapods divisible

In two & three. As i’m but Darko, unreconciled 

I praise women, learners, lovers, workers,

The insurgent four whales that bear the world,

With robust love may turn it upside down.

Darko R. Suvin

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