The Threshold by Iman Mersal

Author:Iman Mersal
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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What you’ve learned here is no different from what you learned there:

—read for your passport away from reality

—hide anxiety with vulgar language

—banish weakness by growing your nails

—cure insomnia by smoking always and tidying your drawers sometimes

—use three different brands of eyedrops to clear your vision, then enjoy your blindness (even better is the moment when your eyelids close over the burn)

Here as well as there

life seems to exist only to be watched from afar.

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A surprising peace enters your body.

Just let your head rest beneath the water.

Why not? This is your bright idea,

glistening like a pearl in the trash?

How can you throw it away like this?

It’s your own idea, contrary, authentic.

These seconds don’t pass one after another,

they are the razor’s edge between moments.

You remember the dirty dishes in the kitchen,

the mail with its catalogs,

the lights drilling into your eyes …

The mercy you didn’t know you were looking for is here.

It will slip into your lungs

if you let your body relax … sink to the bottom … stay down just a few seconds more …

There’s no reason to be frightened.

Time makes no difference.

It isn’t a weight dragging your courage down.

Time is nothing, time is just time.

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