These Big Black Eyes

Thin arms melted away, without strength or stamina, the drum-tight bellies of newborns swollen with a livid swarm of parasites — the earth’s gift to them?! — faces turned into eyes. Big black eyes turned into fire: on the page of the earth’s news they blaze up, they burn the screens, they fall into the house, they burn human hearts, they burn the false, unbalanced scales...