Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl

1978 / Reykjavik

X. [I died but now I live for]

I died but now I live for
ages of ages
and hold the keys of hell and death
Write now what you see:
Infants regurgitating their mother's milk
there's a common cold in the air
and sunlit stool
Rightly we should reduce
poverty
and chain these protesters
to walls of houses
wailing walls
breastplates
I am with you in the oppression,
the kingdom & the perseverance
I know your work
You are alive in name and yet dead

Translation: Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl
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