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Sometimes Carlo seemed completely sane and lucid.

A chapter in the book A Silent Cry

Killing Flies

by Marjon van Bruggen


The chair shifts in a pool of light
he creases a smile without a purpose
grabs and poises the plastic weapon ---
Woosh!

Another little corpse, a speck
on an already busy tile
a neat row of dead flies.
Satisfaction glows in hungry eyes.

"I saved you from this air attack"
He seems completely sane to all
but me.
He never killed a fly
before
I sigh.


Marjon van Bruggen
September 2015

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This was a difficult period. His mood changed constantly. To many people he would seem not ill at all, he could talk to them, his usual, entertaining self. An intelligent, good-humored man. Then, for no apparent reason, he could change before my eyes. Do or say things he never did or say before, looking at me, but not seeing me.
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