Jan Lauwereyns
SOPHIE FAKED REGRET AND LAUGHED
Better read the heaping of dust in what you see before you,
He who grubs is he who grabs and gains good value,
Proclaim the past, it’s past and gone, it’s said its last goodbye,
Pusillanimous, tendentious, garrulous, loquacious, vacuous, impure
Uncertain, underage, undeserving, unhandy, unseemly, unsure,
Sophie, not keen on her bit-part, banally let fly
Her razor-sharp tongue, white with rage and blue in the face,
Against her palate, lacking any grain of grace,
Wondered rhetorically what the sleuth might learn
With every new victim, faked regret, and tore
The lungs of Miki out of her ribcage, and gored
My heart, now busy with ceasing to beat, Burn
In hell, both of you, and laughed, Silence is coming, too,
Try a sleight of flight, escape the void that beckons you.
Publisher: First publication on poetryinternational.com, , 2023
SOPHIE VEINSDE SPIJT EN LACHTE
SOPHIE VEINSDE SPIJT EN LACHTE
Lees liever het hopen van stoffen in wat je voor je ziet,
Het is wie graait die grijpt en van het lot geniet,
Bewees het verleden, weg, voorbij, geschreven, finaal,
Lafhartig, leeghoofdig, lichtvaardig, loslippig, luchtledig, laattijdig,
Onmachtig, onmondig, onwaardig, onhandig, onzalig, onzijdig,
Sophie, niet happig op haar bijrol, klakte banaal
Met vlijmscherpe tongspier, wit van woede en blauw van rade,
Tegen haar gehemelte, vrij van een greintje genade,
Verwonderde zich retorisch wat de speurder zoekt
In ieder volgend slachtoffer, veinsde spijt, en rukte
Miki de longen uit haar ribbenkast, en plukte
Mijn hart, bij dezen bezig te stoppen met kloppen, Vervloekt
Zijn jullie beiden, en lachte en daagde, De stilte dreigt,
Probeer een vluchtbeweging, ontsnap aan de leegte die neigt.
From: Zombie zoekt zielgeno(o)t
Publisher: Uitgeverij Koppernik, Amsterdam
SOPHIE FAKED REGRET AND LAUGHED
Better read the heaping of dust in what you see before you,
He who grubs is he who grabs and gains good value,
Proclaim the past, it’s past and gone, it’s said its last goodbye,
Pusillanimous, tendentious, garrulous, loquacious, vacuous, impure
Uncertain, underage, undeserving, unhandy, unseemly, unsure,
Sophie, not keen on her bit-part, banally let fly
Her razor-sharp tongue, white with rage and blue in the face,
Against her palate, lacking any grain of grace,
Wondered rhetorically what the sleuth might learn
With every new victim, faked regret, and tore
The lungs of Miki out of her ribcage, and gored
My heart, now busy with ceasing to beat, Burn
In hell, both of you, and laughed, Silence is coming, too,
Try a sleight of flight, escape the void that beckons you.
From: Zombie zoekt zielgeno(o)t
Publisher: 2023, First publication on poetryinternational.com, Amsterdam
SOPHIE FAKED REGRET AND LAUGHED
Better read the heaping of dust in what you see before you,
He who grubs is he who grabs and gains good value,
Proclaim the past, it’s past and gone, it’s said its last goodbye,
Pusillanimous, tendentious, garrulous, loquacious, vacuous, impure
Uncertain, underage, undeserving, unhandy, unseemly, unsure,
Sophie, not keen on her bit-part, banally let fly
Her razor-sharp tongue, white with rage and blue in the face,
Against her palate, lacking any grain of grace,
Wondered rhetorically what the sleuth might learn
With every new victim, faked regret, and tore
The lungs of Miki out of her ribcage, and gored
My heart, now busy with ceasing to beat, Burn
In hell, both of you, and laughed, Silence is coming, too,
Try a sleight of flight, escape the void that beckons you.
Publisher: 2023, First publication on poetryinternational.com,