Stage

transitivities

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Because it will end in unbearable scenes

Because the conditions for doing things for others are others

Because the corpses were doused with acid long ago

Because the stench stimulates sociability

Because the void (say, in the stomach), stimulates production

Because nausea creates fertile ground for artificial needs

Because acid triggers the craving for fullness

Because the belch is part of politics

Because the conditions for belching are reserved for the few

Because a place in the wings is reserved for the few

Because things happen in the wings

Because this things must not come to light 

Because words set the stage for the world

Because the world keeps words in their places

Because there exists a loathing for it all

the mirror has a kind of inverted validity

that the truth lacks

Inger Christensen, It, Susanna Nied (trad.), Anne Carson (intr.), New Directions Books, 2006 (originalmente publicado em dinamarquês em 1969).