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Poem

Inger Elisabeth Hansen

possibly a heroine or a sexed victim

possibly a heroine or a sexed victim, a femaled victim, from a pre-war period,
from a post-war period, she stands there in the black-and-white documentary from a before or after,
from the self-destructive celluloid in a for or against, it depends on the angle, it depends
on the viewpoint, it depends on the angles and the lines that can be drawn between the points,
it depends on the threads that are spun, a web is spun, she is watched through a web
spun over the section of herself, we have her now, we can suck her empty, or is it the eye itself,
the free-flying eye, the glistening, spinning eye, which itself is stuck in the web, sucked empty
like a fly

possibly a heroine or a sexed victim

muligens en heltinne eller et kjønnet offer, et hun-kjønnet offer, fra en førkrigstid,
fra en etterkrigstid, hun står der i den svart-hvite dokumentaren fra et før eller etter,
fra den selvdestruerende celluloiden i et for eller mot, det kommer an på vinklingen, det kommer
an på synspunktet, det kommer an på vinklene og strekene som kan trekkes mellom punktene,
det kommer an på trådene som spinnes, et nett er spunnet, hun blir betraktet gjennom et nett
spunnet over utsnittet av seg selv, vi har henne nå, vi kan suge henne tom, eller er det øyet selv,
det frittflyvende øyet, det glinsende, snurrende øyet, som selv sitter fast i nettet, sugd tomt
som en flue
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possibly a heroine or a sexed victim

possibly a heroine or a sexed victim, a femaled victim, from a pre-war period,
from a post-war period, she stands there in the black-and-white documentary from a before or after,
from the self-destructive celluloid in a for or against, it depends on the angle, it depends
on the viewpoint, it depends on the angles and the lines that can be drawn between the points,
it depends on the threads that are spun, a web is spun, she is watched through a web
spun over the section of herself, we have her now, we can suck her empty, or is it the eye itself,
the free-flying eye, the glistening, spinning eye, which itself is stuck in the web, sucked empty
like a fly

possibly a heroine or a sexed victim

possibly a heroine or a sexed victim, a femaled victim, from a pre-war period,
from a post-war period, she stands there in the black-and-white documentary from a before or after,
from the self-destructive celluloid in a for or against, it depends on the angle, it depends
on the viewpoint, it depends on the angles and the lines that can be drawn between the points,
it depends on the threads that are spun, a web is spun, she is watched through a web
spun over the section of herself, we have her now, we can suck her empty, or is it the eye itself,
the free-flying eye, the glistening, spinning eye, which itself is stuck in the web, sucked empty
like a fly
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