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Nº 767 Poems

Deforestation © Greenpeace

Lobotomy

Do not deforest the woods

without first cutting down

one by one

our

neurons.

What seed, what forest

could then still germinate

in a dissociated wasteland

that once was a brain?

Rafael Carcelén (Spain)
Translation Germain Droogenbroodt

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