Olgi says she’s going to take me somewhere and show me something I’ve never seen before. We walk through a door into an inner courtyard, then from there into another one, then into a third one, where there is a wire fence. Olgi knows where the fence can be lifted, she picks it up, holds it, I slip through, then I hold it up while she slips through the fence.

The Eternal
is like the ax
the assassin slams

The disturbed man chopped up the body
of the older woman for days and threw it
into garbage cans at various locations

In my case, there was no drama. The lady doctor
was very nice. I made my way quickly to the other side
of being not pregnant again. Of being without child.

A Chinese emperor, in order to preserve
his power, decided that he would never
grant clemency to anyone. His reign