"The Last Day of Betty Nkomo" combines the visual effect with the sound but in a way that the raw meaning of the simple words not only surves as an analogy to the raw reality and a simplicity of the world Betty is living and dying in, but also it penetrates in almoust a hypnotic and violent way to the readers counsciousness. The reader can not interfere in the poem, but only sit and absorbe. The most important component of this e-poem is the background story that reaches out across the whole world into a completely different world , a world of high possibilities and low awarenes, so different from the Bettys one.
That is why it sings, screams and flashes before it dissapeares in a moment, a glimpse, in a half of a sentence..
To be awaken and to raise our heads as she raises hers for seeing someone she cares about..
She dies then, but in that moment as the poem ends and we see an unfinished sentence, unfinished cycle
and the black screen along with the silence, we became more than spectatores, observers and in that moment the distance between Betty and the reader dissapeares and the forgotten people of the forgotten world get a glimpse of hope we'll remember..
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