Sometimes I think you’re right, wanting to lose everything and wander Like a blind king. Wanting to squeeze a lifetime between your hands
Like the body of a woman, something to love in passing,
Which we all know is just a hollow box, mechanized to obey?
Sometimes I want my heart to beat like yours: from the outside in, A locket stuffed with faces that refuse to be named. For time To land at my feet like a grenade.
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GLOSSARY
[Title] Photojournalist: journalist who communicates news through photographs GLOSSARY
[9] brandish: or excitement
[9] bravado: show of boldness intended to impress or intimidate
[13] resurrected: restored to life, revitalised [18] Errant: wandering, straying [19] era: period of history
[27] blind king: possible allusion to the Greek tragedy Oedipus the King. Oedipus blinded himself with his wife’s brooch when he discovered that he had unknowingly killed his father, Laius, and married his mother, Jocasta. He had been adopted as a baby when Laius and Jocasta ordered his death because he was fated to kill his father and marry his mother. But the shepherd who was supposed to leave the infant to die took pity on him and gave him to a childless couple who lived far away. The prophecy then came true, as Oedipus killed his father and married his mother. When this was discovered, Jocasta killed herself, while Oedipus felt that punishment for what he had – unwittingly – done.