Poem
Jacob Groot
PLEASE DON’T LEAVE ABSENTEE
The latest news has finally reached me tooI can hear you jump to my first place &
I am answered, while already embraced by your
name on my lips, by your jingle
in the jungle of the almost crippling urge
I saved for days for the Saturday night
flirt with your black lacquered beauty the same as old cake the week
breaks because who have I been before your intro heals
to not need to helplessly hang around
the corridor of torture now enflamed my manhood
rages through my as yet wholly
unborn member on my march from the camp
to the altar of your knell in front of which
I wordlessly assemble &
once there don’t let me only learn
the rank & stature but above all
how the soil-pipe smell in the oil around the cream
across the voice with which you run me through &
a thousand thanks to you for this, stone-deaf, entirely
averted from me right into the balls of my ears
rolled up idol
© Translation: 2011, Willem Groenewegen
Publisher: First published on PIW, , 2011
Publisher: First published on PIW, , 2011
AFWEZIGE GA NIET WEG
AFWEZIGE GA NIET WEG
Het laatste nieuws heeft ten slotte ook mij bereiktIk hoor hoe je springt naar m’n eerste plaats &
verhoord ben ik, toch al omhelsd door je
naam op m’n lippen, door je jingle
in de jungle van m’n dagenlang gespaarde haast
melaats makende drang naar de zaterdagnachtelijke
sjans met je black gelakte pracht als van dezelfde ouwe cake de week
breekt want wie ben ik tot je intro geneest
geweest om niet meer machteloos te hoeven
hangen in de martelgang nu gevlamd blaast
m’n mankracht door m’n nog helemaal
ongeboren geslacht op m’n mars van het kamp
naar het altaar van je klank waarvoor ik
woordloos samenschool &
laat me daar niet alleen
leren de rank & de rang maar boven alles
de stank van het riool in de olie om de room
over de stem waarmee je me doorboort &
duizend maal dank zeg ik je daarvoor, stokdoof volledig van me
afgewend tot in de ballen van m’n oren
opgerold idool
© 2009, Jacob Groot
From: Lofzang
Publisher: Uitgeverij De Harmonie, Amsterdam
From: Lofzang
Publisher: Uitgeverij De Harmonie, Amsterdam
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PLEASE DON’T LEAVE ABSENTEE
The latest news has finally reached me tooI can hear you jump to my first place &
I am answered, while already embraced by your
name on my lips, by your jingle
in the jungle of the almost crippling urge
I saved for days for the Saturday night
flirt with your black lacquered beauty the same as old cake the week
breaks because who have I been before your intro heals
to not need to helplessly hang around
the corridor of torture now enflamed my manhood
rages through my as yet wholly
unborn member on my march from the camp
to the altar of your knell in front of which
I wordlessly assemble &
once there don’t let me only learn
the rank & stature but above all
how the soil-pipe smell in the oil around the cream
across the voice with which you run me through &
a thousand thanks to you for this, stone-deaf, entirely
averted from me right into the balls of my ears
rolled up idol
© 2011, Willem Groenewegen
From: Lofzang
Publisher: 2011, First published on PIW, Amsterdam
From: Lofzang
Publisher: 2011, First published on PIW, Amsterdam
PLEASE DON’T LEAVE ABSENTEE
The latest news has finally reached me tooI can hear you jump to my first place &
I am answered, while already embraced by your
name on my lips, by your jingle
in the jungle of the almost crippling urge
I saved for days for the Saturday night
flirt with your black lacquered beauty the same as old cake the week
breaks because who have I been before your intro heals
to not need to helplessly hang around
the corridor of torture now enflamed my manhood
rages through my as yet wholly
unborn member on my march from the camp
to the altar of your knell in front of which
I wordlessly assemble &
once there don’t let me only learn
the rank & stature but above all
how the soil-pipe smell in the oil around the cream
across the voice with which you run me through &
a thousand thanks to you for this, stone-deaf, entirely
averted from me right into the balls of my ears
rolled up idol
© 2011, Willem Groenewegen
Publisher: 2011, First published on PIW,
Publisher: 2011, First published on PIW,
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