Die Tür | The Door by Atwood Margaret

Author:Atwood, Margaret [Atwood, Margaret]
Language: deu
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783827077554
Publisher: Berlin Verlag
Published: 2015-07-19T16:00:00+00:00

WHITE COTTON T-SHIRT

White cotton T-shirt: an innocent garment then.

It made its way to us from the war, but we didn’t know that.

For us it was the vestment of summer,

whiter than white, shining with whiteness

because it had been washed in blood, but we didn’t know that,

and in the cropped sleeve, rolled up tightly

into a cuff, were tucked the cigarettes,

also white within their packet, also innocent,

as were white panties, white convertibles,

white-blond brush-cuts,

and the white, white teeth of the lilting smiles

of the young men.

Ignorance makes all things clean.

Our knowledge weighs us down.

We want it gone

so we can put on our white T-shirts

and drive once more through the early dawn

streets with the names we never could

pronounce, but it didn’t matter,

over the broken glass and bricks, passing

the wary impoverished faces,

the grins filled with blackening teeth,

the starving dogs and stick children

and the slackened bundles of clothing

that once held men,

enjoying the rush of morning air

on our clean, tanned skins,

and the white, white flowers we hold out in our fists,

believing – still – that they are flowers of peace.

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