WHAT IS THIS CITY?
By Lina Stefanou
What is this city?
Her brave people
– the greatness of their soul that nullifies the law of masses.
Her old buildings
that still breath while falling apart and their gaping
derelict windows that continue to narrate stories
to the random gaze of the passer-by that falls on them.
The voice of Caruso amidst smoke, drinks and talk one evening at a bar. How night-time came to a standstill and the moment turned into a three dimensional timbre.
Her resistances. Resilient like a spring stem. Like weeds growing through cement blocks…