Poem by the Danish poet Michael Strunge

Speed of life

Smash the clock

with my thoughts –

I only live

at the speed of life

Swiftly change

to a new disguise –

I need transformations

at the speed of life

Form contrasts

need no camouflage –

sick and tired of

not being myself

Change colour

anarchist chameleon –

throw off my mask

change life-form

My mind

grows out of my head –

changed minds

after having been dead

Finally

it would seem I now know –

that I do not have

an indestructible self

Who knows

knows what one’s self is like?

I couldn’t care less

myself create myself

Change speed

I need a change of speed –

I transform my life

before it transforms me