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Tuesday, 3 November 2020

Total - Enes Halilović

The wall.
The wall unbuilt.
The wall built.
The wall added.
The wall ruined.
The wall invisible. The wall predictable.
Nobody’s wall. Anybody’s wall.
The soundwall.
The load bearing wall.
The prison wall.
The wall of the medieval fortress that hears only shouts and moans.
The wall through which cernels they pour boiling tar over the attackers.
The wall drawn. The wall crossed out.
The wall with which Zulqarnayn built in peopleYajuj and Majuj
because they were making chaos on Earth.
The cell wall that protects the cell membrane.
The wall the forefather of the walls.
The wall that protects data in the computer network.
The shooting wall.
The labyrinth wall.
The wall between  or and or.
The wall between yes and no.
The wall between 0 and 1.
The wall between the letter and the sound.
The wall destroyed by the earthquake.
The wall with no colour. The wall colored with all colours.
The wall between the writer and the epigone.
The Antonine Wall - forsaken.
The Servian Wall - the first that was built using cement.
Hadrian’s Wall – erected as a protection against the barbarians.
Sumerian Wall made of mud-bricks.
The Great Wall of China suffused with its masons’ blood.
The Berlin Wall between the East and the West.
The Wailing Wall.
The wall knocked down by Edmond Dantès.
Sartre’s The Wall.
The wall from the epic poem The Building of  Skadar where the walled in
mother nursed her infant.
The wall of administration.
The wall soiled with political slogans.
The wall – universal opponent that keeps returning balls to a tennis player.
The gallery wall that watches paintings from behind.
The wall which has ears.
The defensive wall in football.
Steel-reinforced wall of the fallout shelter.
The wall through which Dracula passed.
The wall Ceausescu leaned against one winter.
The Wall of Silence.
And this wall, here and today. The wall on which I write. The wall
about which I write. 

Enes Halilović (born 1977) Serbia
Translator not stated
Source: Lyric Line

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