FANTASY

the extraterrestrials are the souls of dead african children

who pursue the europeans

taking away from them the remaining bits of reason

and common sense

avenge the world order

created in their image

place bombs in stairwells

scare them at night with flying saucers

and poltergeist

derail trans-european expresses

and cut off mountain climbers’ ropes

in other words, play the way children do

and their unmotivated childlike cruelty

their otherworldly vindictiveness

smells of the savanna and of the sound of the drums

smells of the sweat of an african mother

who maybe gave birth to new children

and even does not recall the dead ones

and what else do they have left to do the little rascals

Translated by Vitaly Chernetsky