With no ElectricityYou can burn stupid booksand warm your hands by the fire.You can run into the armsof someone you barely knowand use it as an excuse.You can listen to the stars as they dazzle above your head.You can be a real manand massacre things in the dark.Rub your hands together,feel the warmth.Sob.  (No one will know it’s you).Search for a candle,and stub your toe.Think of all the thingsyou could have said/might have saidand say them.Invent a new form of BrailleNipples-commas.  Thighs-full stop.Listen to the sounds in the dark.Interrogate them.Design billboards for the blind.Escape.

Adam Tod Leverton

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