Life or Siege?
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Siege / noun
- A military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling those inside to surrender
How much silence makes a siege?
And how much sound ends it?
What makes a siege a siege?
When do we stop calling it so?
For how long does a siege last?
Does the siege interrupt [our] life or is [our] life merely in the way of an undying siege?
What is a siege in a [perpetual] siege called?
What is more persistent — Life or Siege?
Each night, I traced the position of a star — sometimes near and sometimes farther away — shining in the line of sight of the moon, almost perpendicular.
Each morning I found my bedside clock fallen on its face.
Mother and I are walking on the street. A bus, crammed with a horde of eyes darting furtive glances at everything around them as if they had landed into an extraterrestrial space, stops at our feet. I struggle to count and define the eyes I see: nineteen hundred eighty-nine eyes, nineteen hundred and forty-seven eyes, nineteen hundred and eighty-four eyes, nineteen hundred and thirty eyes, two thousand and ten eyes, two thousand and sixteen eyes, three hundred and seventy eyes, armed-eyes, razor-sharp eyes, automated eyes, seven hundred thousand eyes plus thirty-eight thousand eyes, eye-less eyes…
Two elderly women conversing on the roadside looking toward the skies, the passersby, the
