HOW TO MAKE A REVOLUTION WITHOUT A CAR?

28.10.19

Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas

I want to break a car
Destroy it as a tiny ant in the map
But I don´t have car
Maybe I can break my parents´car
Cut it into many pieces and eat it
and think about the indigestion
caused by those plastic, metal and glass pieces
that this suspicious car gives to my ideoligized heart
But my parents don´t have a car
My grandparents don´t have a car either

**I need to break, to kill, to demolish this imaginary car, this imposible car
in an anonymus accident maybe

**Somebody tells me about an accident
A car kills many people on the street

Is the car guilty of murder?
Is the car a super killer automaton?!
Is the car a student protest?

I need to put an end to the life of this invisible car
Which is looking into my eyes
Which is inside the plating
Which is taking the best of me
By shooting into my heart as an empty island with only one car
A death
Maybe they say Heimat
Maybe they say Viva Cuba Libre
Maybe they say
BREAK ME
I DON´T WANNA BE A CAR ANYMORE.

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The poem was performed live (and live on facebook) during the marathon presentation, Berlin 28/October