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Title: | The Great Mannequin Warehouse |
Other Titles: | Full stop |
Authors: | Xerri, Daniel |
Keywords: | Poetry -- Study and teaching English poetry -- Study and teaching English literature -- Study and teaching |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
Publisher: | IRF Press |
Citation: | Xerri, D. (2017). The great mannequin warehouse. In M. Isaienkova, O. Lytovka & A. Tryniecka (Eds.), Full stop (p. 31). Warsaw: IRF Press. |
Abstract: | In the Great Mannequin Warehouse, my mouth choked by ashen dust, I saw them standing still in silence, staring at a point far off in the distance, staring without acknowledgement, the flames wreathing them in swathes of shadows. Row upon row of the unwanted, the broken and deformed lined the walls of this old warehouse, immemorial first footprint on Earth’s crust; rejects paraded like books heaped for the burning, stories no one wanted told. ‘This is the great mannequin warehouse,’ said the custodian with a smirk. ‘You’re witnessing what all refuse to see: the exiles of the Great Department Store expelled from the windows for being–’ ‘God’s forsaken!’ was I quick to answer. ‘…for being who they were meant to be.’ |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/116997 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - CenELP |
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