<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Then we will go to Europe</span><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 22px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Then we will go to Europe, go</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">to Venice or Berlin, and live like Rilke</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">in communes of verse and there,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">maybe there, we will shake off this disease</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">which dulls our senses and dulls everything</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">and spreads like aluminium</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">and clings like a plastic bag in a high branch, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">like crude to a gannet’s feathers. Or</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">if not in the cities then in the forests</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">or in red caves in red deserts</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">or around the craters of gunungs in the archipelago</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">or among sandstone towers in the valleys of the West.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Oh ’</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 22px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">I don’t know. Just take me </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">somewhere it has not yet reached, somewhere</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">lonely and still real and let me</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">stand there and feel nothing </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">and lose the fear and, finally,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">breathe.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 22px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Paul Kingsnorth</div></div></body></html>