The Old Franz, Kidnapped by His Forgetfulness
The old Franz watched himself age in the mirror and saw how his eyes distanced him more and more each day from the landscape and reality. Perhaps he didn't realize how his wavering world crumbled in sync with his distracted movements. Upon waking, he would cultivate a studied, expressionless, static smile. He was kidnapped by his own forgetfulness, but he continued to encourage his image for a campaign to which his survival instinct did not adhere despite his repeated blunders in public. Among friends, he would boast of his preparations for a proper Third World War, as if that act were the cherry on top or humanity's last supper. There won't even be a place for the statue of the unknown soldier, said the Prime Minister of a pacifist country, almost unknown on the map, tucked away like an iceberg broken off from a glacier. It was a sort of Greek-style prophecy, without a parachute, though the world lived on the edge of the abyss.
The old Franz, dressed in blue for ceremonies he called official, though he had already lost touch with reality, took short steps in a circle and repeated his handshake to the air. Like an elevator going up and down without passengers, his body seemed to land on no floor. The old Franz already inhabited limbo, and no one would rescue him.
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