Evaluation:
Published: 01.12.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Home Body', 1.
Extract

In the dream, you just look at me.
Like I'd never said anything.
But your eyes...
'Don't do something foolish' you say
like that would change anything...
The nonsense of it...
And then
No warning
The ground shakes ice
loose.
slabs pull water
feet
to bottom...
A blur.
The gravity of it.
You say it's because I didn't ask.
But how could I know?
The house ungrounded without you
would remain?
Homeless?
Eisenberg explained it to me.
'Looking fools proof'' he said.
Uncertainty is all there is.
Have pictures to prove it...
With no grounding
All connections
are digital now
and I don't mea…

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