she reads to me from the New Yorker which I don’t buy, don’t know how they get in here, but it’s something about the Mafia one of the heads of the Mafia who ate too much and had it too easy too many fine women patting his walnuts, and he got fat sucking at good […]
Les mer»Det er løgn, hvad jeg skrev i det brev, jeg brændte at jeg tænker på dig hele tiden. Men jeg tænker på dig det meste af tiden. Det er også løgn, at jeg ikke kan sove: Jeg sover udmærket, og drømmer desuden om andre kvinder. Men når jeg vågner, tænker jeg straks på dig. De […]
Les mer»We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn. A red wing rose in the darkness. And suddenly a hare ran across the road. One of us pointed to it with his hand. That was long ago. Today neither of them is alive, Not the hare, nor the man who made the gesture. […]
Les mer»We’re gettin’ tired of hangin’ around Waitin’ around with our heads to the ground I hear a very gentle sound Very near yet very far Very soft, yeah, very clear Come today, come today What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her […]
Les mer»No one understood the perfume of the dark magnolia of your womb. Nobody knew that you tormented a hummingbird of love between your teeth. A thousand Persian little horses fell asleep in the plaza with moon of your forehead, while through four nights I embraced your waist, enemy of the snow. Between plaster and jasmins, […]
Les mer»each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand – and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a […]
Les mer»I want to get up early one morning, before sunrise. Before the birds, even. I want to throw cold water on my face and be at my work table when the sky lightens and smoke begins to rise from the chimneys of the other houses. I want to see the waves break on this rocky […]
Les mer»ONE’S-SELF I sing—a simple, separate Person; Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-masse. Of Physiology from top to toe I sing; Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for the muse—I say the Form complete is worthier far; The Female equally with the male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and […]
Les mer»Milde død du hvis skjønnhet er en smerte du hvis kjærlighet er grusom du hvis glede er en angst Milde død du hvis hender ener meg med nattens jord denne glede som jeg knapt fornemmer du hvis ånde er en skjelven gjennom vannets feberglans Du som i den hvite time smelter jordens bløte skygger inn […]
Les mer»The Alexandrians turned out in force to see Cleopatra’s children, Kaisarion and his little brothers, Alexander and Ptolemy, who for the first time had been taken out to the Gymnasium, to be proclaimed kings there before a brilliant array of soldiers. Alexander: they declared him king of Armenia, Media, and the Parthians. Ptolemy: they declared […]
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