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Poem

Kerstin Hensel

SAINT

God, I give up.
I'll make a monkey of myself too.
The worm
is ticking time away
under the wooden blindfold
of deaf
and stupefied dumb
humanity.
Is that my pedestal
wobbling
as I sit gobbling
television
through simian cataracts?

HEILIGER

HEILIGER

Gott, ach einen Affen
Brauche ich zu dem ich mich mache, taub
Die Menschheit unter der Binde aus Holz
Schweigt, da der Wurm drinnen
Nicht richtig tickt Zeit Unzeit Wie
Kippelt der Sockel darauf ich
In Blindheit fern seh
Close

SAINT

God, I give up.
I'll make a monkey of myself too.
The worm
is ticking time away
under the wooden blindfold
of deaf
and stupefied dumb
humanity.
Is that my pedestal
wobbling
as I sit gobbling
television
through simian cataracts?

SAINT

God, I give up.
I'll make a monkey of myself too.
The worm
is ticking time away
under the wooden blindfold
of deaf
and stupefied dumb
humanity.
Is that my pedestal
wobbling
as I sit gobbling
television
through simian cataracts?
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