“If there are angels
they must, I hope,
find this convincing,
this merriment dangling from terror,
not even crying Save me Save me
since all of this takes place in silence.”

—  Wisława Szymborska

"Slapstick"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The End and the Beginning (1993)

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