Lord of the World
Be’eri Hazak
1974
Please, increase the intensity of your signals.
Here I
can’t hear, can’t know, if you’ve
stuck another iron flower in the lapel
of the antenna. You’re so delicate. Why
are you so soft, why are you always
civilian. Am I coming over OK, over,
over, you too come over fragmented, you
sound wounded, you
in the valley peripherally deployed. Mountains
…
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