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The face is chiseled to a landscape

which is worked into the palms and foot soles as well.

Whether here or there

life is down and barefoot in the desert

with some tobacco for the old short pipe,

but without luxury or any kind of comfort.

Eyes see strange things like children with water bellies

or children without arms or legs and mutilating scars.

You ask how it could happen

but the children will look at you with big eyes.

They will not speak, but will look at you

because they cannot explain the reason properly.

It is until the day that children expect the answer from you

why they must be carried on wheelchairs or otherwise

through their lives, since they do not feel guilty

though they feel ashamed to show you the ugly scars

in their faces and on their necks and the missing limbs.

They ask you why you did not care better for them.

That is because the face is chiseled to a landscape

that is a landscape of trenches and craters.

The palms and feet are horribly worked out

as if you have carried explosives on a daily basis.

That is because your eyes get blurred and your mind gets crazy

when you see things that you don’t like to see.