Batman
Batman I put my hands where my gloves wanted, my face where my mask could reveal itself. My only feat, not to be true, to lie with the awareness that I am not telling the truth. I have used the word love as a scalpel, and then I have seen the greenish scar that remains in the beloved and in the lover, and the scar shines in these words, and in my gaze I stroke the fleshy, thin edges of the scar. Night passed, took my old statues, erased the bubbling silence of conspirators, heroes who lost their heroism at birth. The great veil of the tropic, like a body adrift, falls upon us. Falls with slow waves of insects, and heat is the obscene language that licks the bodies of the living and the dead. From the sea, the last birds return. From what face, could I pull my mask to test the fabric of my life, the great wrapping of what surrounds me? Night sinks into faces, the tropics spread their hot, damp blankets over my heart. A slow b...