Wednesday, May 6, 2026

A Wall by Kingu Fabó

As other Eastern Europeans celebrated the toppling of walls in the early 90s, Fabó discovered a deeper, more intractable one.

The gap between: a wall: not stone.
Not porous like brick, not prefab cement.
But this teeming, tongueless flesh.
Nothing is permitted across:
No flashbulb, no voice drop, no appetite 
Just detachment's clammy sweat.

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Közöttünk a fal: nem kő.
Nem is tégla, nem is beton.
Hanem ez a sűrű, néma hús.
Ami nem enged át semmit:
se fényt, se hangot, se vágyat.
Csak a magány hideg verítékét.