you don’t know anymore
if you’re a wooden puppet or
a baby octopus, the smell of
deep fried fritters or cigarette smoke, you’re cursed
with options,
—- Gratiagusti Chananya Rompas
Translated from the Indonesian by Mikael Johani from poem You Step
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