They’re robbing them of their gloom in Eastern Europe, that’s the rumour. They’re turning them into us.
It’s the gig economy. It’s neoliberal wickedness. It’s the reign of positivity. The whole yes I can thing.
The great despair pipe, running direct from Eastern Europe to us is drying up.
They used to mine despair where Cicero lived, for export to the West. Open cast anxiety mining. Essential Eastern European raw materials.
She made up her Eastern European stories. Her Eastern European poets – who we’ve never even heard of here. Who’ve never been translated.
Work in Progress 