Roberto Bolano



The Robot


I remember Plato told me
and I didn't pay attention.
Now I'm in death's nightclub
and there's nothing I can do:
space is a paradox.
Nothing can happen here
and yet here I am.
Just a robot
with an unspecified mission.
An eternal work of art.


trns. by Laura Healy


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