Our Whole Life

Our whole life a translationthe permissible fibsand now a knot of lieseating at itself to get

Words bitten thru words~~meanings burnt-off like paintunder the

All those dead lettersrendered into the oppressor's

Trying to tell the doctor where it hurtslike the Algerianwho waled form his village, burninghis whole body a could of painand there are no words for thisexcept himself