How should a person feel in a society whose emblem is the line: “He wanted to possess you / we held on”? Especially when the results of this “possession” and “holding on” are already obvious, because the universe, social and personal, has ended.

One of the answers to these questions is Artur Komorowski’s book of poems “I and I Am the Forbidden Flag”. It reflects complex relationships with reality, which under the influence of social circumstances become extremely corrupted. The book poses the urgent problem of not accepting “others”, that is, those who are different in some way, do not fit in with “their own”. What this difference is based on makes no difference. The leitmotifs of violence and the fragility of the body, attempts to find support in the post-August world - all this introduces Artur Komorowski’s book into the stream of protest lyrics, while nevertheless preserving the originality of the poetic world.