ON TELLING THE TRUTH
Motto:
“Don’t hold it against me, for I must tell the truth about the dead even,
to make the living fall in love with the real dead…”
Juliusz Slowacki, Letter to mother, Paris 1845
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I don’t know who told him to stand
and wait, holding a swath of red and a brush of rabbit fur
[rabbi forgive, I will wipe your face clean].
certainly not he, who was here before me and dug in the rain.
