Fantasy Sentences

Borrowing its title from an experimental text by Walter Benjamin Many years ago the cities by the river were gripped by a contagion Things started to change and everything slowly became something else It was not clear if transformation was a symptom of the disease or a way to escape it The contagion touched everything and everyone animals and plants stones and soil men women and children their thoughts their dreams their memories An old woman once told me how all memories turn into trees I could hardly make out what she was saying She said she could hear the trees singing To be a body to be any body After the years of contagion ended the cities appeared untouched One had to look hard to see the traces of the previous time If one could listen to the trees what would they say A way out a way out