Rocket in the Room delves into the lack of safe boundaries between violent death and daily life, portraying interruptions of homely pleasures by violence and shocked admittance of incredulity and guilt by the speaker.
The poem approaches the concussion of realities in an abstract manner, referencing Walter Benjamin's concept of mourning and resembling a dark nursery rhyme. It imitates a story told to or by a child, enhancing the strangeness of the encounter.
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