domingo, 13 de janeiro de 2013

the plural [kiki dimoula]


Love:
noun, substantive,
extremely substantive,
singular in number;
gender not feminine, not masculine,
gender defenseless.
Plural the number
of defenseless loves.

Fear:
substantive,
singular to start with
plural afterward:
fears.
Fears of
everything from now on.

Memory:
Noun, proper name for sorrows,
singular in number,
singular only,
and indeclinable.
Memory, memory, memory.

Night:
substantive,
gender feminine,
number singular.
Plural in number
the nights.
The nights from now on.

From the ‘The Brazen Plagiarist’, by Kiki Dimoula; translated by Cecile Inglessis Margellos and Rika Lessser
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