Should the World Fail to Fall Apart *
por josé simões, em 08.02.23



For Mesut Hancer, a resident of the Turkish city Kahramanmaras, near the epicentre, it is already too late.
He sat on the freezing rubble, too grief-stricken to speak, refusing to let go of his 15-year-old daughter Irmak's hand as her body lay lifeless among the slabs of concrete and strands of twisted rebar.
[* Can't hear for lack of sleep
Breathing in the smoking ruins]