MONOLOGICAL metrical composition NO...

MONOLOGICAL metrical composition NO.2

translated by way of Rosmarie Waldrop


In between there are
sometimes days forward which

I again perceive like
starting a metrical composition of the kind

that isn't
popular. I mean

one without any meta-
physical clevernes or

what these days considers
as ersatz...this cynical

trick of kneeling down before
the course (on stilts!) of history

or, with organ of visions breaking in the
gruelling East-West-Marathon
like any of Dante's

damned shadows, complaining
about a pain in your side. metrical compositions

somebody said to me the other day
attracted him simply when
full of surprises

written