From the poetry book -Life in Absentia , by George Vassiliou
APOPEIRA Editions, Athens, Greece

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SOUVENIR PHOTOGRAPHS

Faces smiling
in photographs,
souvenirs,
and is it I wonder
the group spirit
that commands the smile,
a reflex,
or something more:

A need,
and, chemical reactions.
Two: on our face and our brain
Two: on the photograph paper
and then up on the wall or
inside the album with the dust
that eternalizes us for
the years to come
in homes and in drawers.

I light a cigarette and I look at them.
I eternalize the repetition
of a movement that will be modified but
how much will it actually change?





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