pair TO ONE translated by way o...

pair TO ONE

translated by way of Rosmarie Waldrop


just to be talking to person
I talked to myself and said
now here you sit and don't
know who you are and talk
to me who already know what you're
going to say and you listen to me
calling you a hypocrite who
if hard crowded takes
woman and like a abash
chomps down and violets, embarrassed
we gaze around for this
body around us split into you
and me as into ear and aperture

then I start all athwart and ask
myself in impudence of you: is it sommer or sunday
is Frieda a weight and who
carries her now. you play mute
and say, stinking