A poem by Adrian DeBattista
Image by Raisa Galea
A word wants to fall
with no gravity
Heard but never seen
Through a sound-proof one-way mirror
Ordering chaos
in faulty chemistry
Defies definition in aural dreams
Deaf ears cause tremors
in suspended blind belief
As it speaks in lungs
Irrigates sunken air
waves through cryptic leaks
That freezes fluency
loose
Senses in cellophane
consumed
by injected inhibitions
echoing a lexical mausoleum
conjuring silence
of thought
A product now defunct
Adrian Debattista is a cultural sector researcher and analyst, live music enthusiast and organiser, lyricist and occasional rap performer. He has recently edited the book Cultural Participation in Malta” (2017) with a collection of essays from a range of scholars published by Arts Council Malta in which he also co-authored a chapter. He has also been active in Malta’s hip-hop circuit both as an organiser and occasionally as a performer for the past ten years. He is mostly recognised as a producer of the series of Maltese rap battle events Botta u Risposta and the vocalist/lyricist for the rock/hip-hop band Squad16.
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