The Pendulum

by Delfina Barbiero

“The pendulum will swing again” they tell me assuredly. But when it does, it will knock our teeth out before making its way back to the right. Its trips to the west will get shorter and shorter. The center will continue to cry that the truth is in the middle of two opposing truths while its being pulled with little protest to its place of comfort. What is left behind is just a pile of broken teeth. And as we watch it swing, we will question “Is the pendulum even on even ground?”

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Delfina Barbiero is a writer from Argentina who grew up in Texas and is now in Brooklyn, New York.