RATHSKELLER (München, 1979)

gus_pampas

We are splintering snifters over a memory,

and at a blind corner of the ratskeller I feel half in touch

with the shattered hour of the people,

the blossoming abandonment of flesh over scattered chairs.

They are grasping at astral oracles

that spell their wounds in tongues of brine,

eyes staring into the charms of oblivion

as sanity stares into the enchantment of a squashed lily.

I am too, after all, brackish blood

in a lethargic state of sarcasm.

 

Now is her shot at “English hour”,

just another load of her big-city girl tribulations:

 

“I have not touched the nerves of buildings,

Their drowning words and faceless souls,

The rich, their sons, the trampled proles

And their intent, the bribes, the bleedings.

Yet this slow dread of concrete clouts

No purpose serves to veils of mirth,

For other men dissolved in bouts

Of littered hopes, before their birth.”

 

©Gustavo Larsen - *Published today on the allpoetry.com Website

  • Author: gus_pampas (Offline Offline)
  • Published: December 1st, 2016 15:18
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Comments2

  • Yorke

    I really enjoyed this, very good.

  • gus_pampas

    Thank you, Gene. I'm very glad you liked it!



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