written by Zornitsa Stoyanova and performed by automatic voice generator (which is also the reason for the formatting)
Out there above us,
a beacon of peace watches. The international space station circles the earth, an image of humanity’s achievement.
Astronauts from around the world meeting, working, eating, sleeping, shitting, waking up and meeting again… watching down on us.
Orbiting
Watching
Moving on…
They are safe.
Protected by a thin layer of shiny magic.
It is perfectly isolating, this magic material – making sure human life is preserved.
The smartest of us all…. most fit for space exploration, watching down on us each day.
Just a thin layer of perfectly isolating
shining
material
keeping them from the horrors of open space.
Keeping them above us.
The best of us,
perfectly isolated in a peaceful cocoon
of safety.
eternally
in orbit.
“Moving on…”
This shiny magic material saves lives…
On earth as well.
Ambulances – those bringers of help and hope – wrapping the injured in it.
A magic fabric that keeps warmth in,
isolating the injured from a certain death.
The shine is happy to help.
The shine is always happy to help.
The shine is happy to help.
The shine is always happy to help.
Cheap and cheaply made,
affordable and easy to get – it is given to all marathon runners to
keep keep keep
warm.
Such honorable material and almost indestructible too.
But once used, it is cheap and cheaply made trash.
Wrapping around posts, crawling out of trash cans,
it will never deteriorate.
The homeless,
The refugees,
The hopeful ones
wrapped in it.
The magic will shine
long after
Who’s wrapped in it
has died.
Moving on
The shiny plastic preserving
those bodies.
perfectly isolated from
the rest of us
Keeping them away.
From the rest of us.
A perfect
indestructible,
Honorable,
life preserving material.
Reflecting and diverting our attention.
Isolating.
Making what’s inside it invisible to our senses.
The shine is always happy to help.
Cheap and cheaply made,
trash
The magic shine will never die….
We even keep our most precious in it.
We keep, We wrap the most needy of us.
The children
The children of others
The children of the immigrants
The refugees,
The ones escaping,
Traumatized,
Hopeful
The little ones
Wanting to become…
to become one of us
One of us …
To be the best of us
To someday look down on us
Moving on
Wanting to become the best of us
Us and them
To become
the best of us
“Keep your head up”
Like the astronauts in space
“…Moving on…”
We wrap them in the shine… for safety.
We
they
we …
they …
We
they…we put them in cages
Many put together
Like stray dogs in cages
Keeping the children in cages
Keeping from the horrors of open space.
Keeping moving on…
But preserved,
Crying
Safe
we
They …
They…
we… wrap them in the magic shine.
The children of others – the refugees.
Perfectly isolated and safe.
Perfectly preserved in plastic.
“do not let children play with plastic bags”
Perfectly preserved, isolated in the plastic shine.
Isolated from us
Safe inside the shine in cages.
Hold hold hold them… in cages.
Humane,
indestructible,
Honorable,
life preserving material.
Reflecting and diverting our attention.
Space saving,
preserving humanity.
as only
humans
do.
Isolating
I so lating
I so late ing
I so lit end
I so lat ei ing
I so la la la lalalalating
I so lala la la tetete te te te te te te lalalalala la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la …la la…la…la la.
