Babel-17 & Empire Star by Samuel R. Delany

Author:Samuel R. Delany [Delany, Samuel R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Novela, Ciencia ficción
Publisher: ePubLibre
Published: 1966-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

PART FOUR

The Butcher

… turning in the brain to wake

with wires behind his eyes, forking the joints

akimbo. He wakes, wired,

forked fingers crackling, gagging on his tongue.

We wake, turning.

Spined against the floor,

his spine turning, chest hollowed,

air in the wires, sparks

glint from the wired ceiling, tapping

his sparking fingernails. Coughs, cries.

The twin behind the eyes coughs, cries.

The dark twin doubles on the floor, swallows his tongue.

Splashed to the dark pole circuited behind

the eyes, the dark twin snaps his spine free, slaps

his palms against the ceiling. Charged beads fly.

The ceiling, polarized, batters his cheek with metal.

Tears free skin. Tears ribs,

torn pectorals of metal curved away

black, behind the cracks, dried,

that are his torn lips. More.

Buttocks and shoulderblades grind on the floor

gritty and green with brine.

They wake.

We wake, turning.

He, gargling blood, turns,

born, on the wet floor…

—from The Dark Twin, M. H.

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