You had this worry
that used barbarians
as the placeholder
for whatever you feared.
These never showed up.
Scratch the previous talk,
they actually did enter,
but they seemed quite civil.
You couldn’t believe that,
you assumed this was a joke,
so you treated them like –,
oh, you hate to swear, sorry.
You kept finding ways to rage them.
They still haven’t felt for your scares.
Mitja Lovše is a writer, a performer and a director from Slovenia. He works within the fields of theatre, film, television and literature. He’s still alive.