Reasons to Leave:
Here is unbearable
There is better
Here will no longer have you
You’re taken there
Whatever the reason for leaving, in some way, you will be broken.
Excerpt from EXODUS -- Libretto, below,
by Ursula Andkjaer Olsen, translated by Barbara J. Haveland, 2016
“The good life begins with a good home
A room for crying a room for laughing.
A room for loving a room for hating.
A room for war a room for peace.
A room for tearing apart a room for sewing together.
A room for wailing a room for jumping for joy.
A room for duties a room for rights.
A room for giving birth a room for dying.
A room for mourning a room for dancing.
A room for killing a room for healing.
A room for losing a room for retrieving.
A room for discarding a room for saving.
A room for sowing a room for reaping.
A room for speaking a room for staying silent.
In all: 26 rooms, 1,000 square metres
The good life means
Having enough room
For yourself
(And all of your meticulous
illusions.)”