Avatar (A Blackout Poem)
This blackout poem was created from pages 186-187 of Jostein Gaarder’s Sophie’s World.
I doubt very much that
the human body is a perfect machine.
Freedom does not happen in the body
it happens in the mind.
I decide to run,
to deny that there is a body.
Because even if I have the will
to rise above,
legs become weak
teeth fall out
the body ages.
I am deeply fascinated
by an illusion.
Human hands
muscles, nerves
veins and arteries
that can sometimes deceive
us into believing that
life is infinite.
Are you sitting comfortably?
You are going beforehand.
