The Life You Bought

Day One (an excerpt from the poem by Franz Wright, one of those read in the video above)

We should really examine
your life, the one you bought,
and what happened when you got home
and attempted to assemble it:

that disfiguring explosion
no one witnessed, no one heard,
which you yourself cannot recall,
and by whose unimaginable light you seek
to write the name of beauty.

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And what happened, indeed…