SACRIFICE
The poet/journalist/filmmaker/novelist describes the wretched of the world and tells how they live tells how they die tells how they get sick how they kill themselves how they scare others how they rape each other how they rape anyone how they masturbate how they get high how they sell drugs how they despair how they run away how they steal how they look for food in garbage dumps how they sleep awake how they beg how they steal children to beg better how they negotiate with the police how they torture traitors how they sell organs of their victims how they cry for years how they laugh with the laughter of the devil how they fight until they die in shitty ways and how they don't care about dying but one day the poet/journalist/filmmaker/novelist goes out on the street to walk thinking about all those things trying to understand understand understand understand once and for all with a universal compassionate gaze to write it down for people to make them feel the harsh reality of some lives and sets out to look very closely with his eyes into the eyes of the other miserable other the other the other the other the absolutely other nothing else but other who has not even a quantum in common with the eye of the one who looks at him and suddenly that other other other other other other other other other stabs him. Just because.
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The irony in the sacrifice.
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