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    ON ORDER AND THINGS
    ON ORDER AND THINGS
    ON ORDER AND THINGS
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    ON ORDER AND THINGS

    By Stefan Psenak

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    On Order and Things is the story of an impossible love between a man and a woman. Confused characters living in a senseless world where love and creativity are irrelevant. This poetic narrative is for all of us. {Guernica Editions}
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGuernica
    Release dateJan 1, 2003
    ISBN9781550717686
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      ON ORDER AND THINGS - Stefan Psenak

      STEFAN PSENAK

      ON ORDER AND THINGS

       ESSENTIAL POETS SERIES 115

      TRANSLATED BY ANTONIO D’ALFONSO

      GUERNICA

      Toronto – Buffalo – Lancaster (U.K.)

      2003  

      For Sylvie and Pierre-Paul

      You run with the clouds and sleep

      when the shadows do.

      Daniel Sloate,

      A Taste of Earth, A Taste of Flame

      ON ORDER AND THINGS

      She tumbles all the way down the twenty-five stairs she had by painstakingly managed to climb, using her shadow as support. Her blouse comes undone, revealing her breasts. He stands at the top of the staircase, studying the way she turns her eyes up to him, eyes at once immensely soft, immensely wild, eyes that ask nothing in return. Her mascara is smudged. He goes down and helps her to her feet, boorishly pulling her by the arms, as he hollers in her face that she’s a bitch. Unburdened, calmed, he presses her beautiful body against his. She is as cold as a corpse. Syringes filled with hope have turned her arms into rubber. He comforts her by whispering how he could love her if only she would let herself be loved. She tells him he is wrong, that there’s no such thing as hope, that hope is a luxury too costly to be purchased. Who in the world really gives a damn? She needs something to drink. He

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