Poem
Gerrit Kouwenaar
Eat while you can of all this
Eat while you can of all thisbeauty continually replenishing itself
eat and digest and comprehend it
now this flesh is ever more intimately
dispossessing itself in the mirror, language
lapsing into its source, time ever faster
gaining on and putting off its self
never before was it as perfect as this
as exquisite as water in the throat
as it is now –
Eet nog van al dit mooie
Eet nog van al dit mooie
voortdurend vervangbaar aanwezige
en drink en bevat en verteer het
nu het vlees steeds vertrouwder
zich in de spiegel onteigent, de taal
verdwaalt in zijn oorsprong, de tijd
steeds sneller zich inhaalt zich uitstelt
zo volmaakt was het nooit
zo voldaan als ingeslikt water
en is het ook nu -
voortdurend vervangbaar aanwezige
en drink en bevat en verteer het
nu het vlees steeds vertrouwder
zich in de spiegel onteigent, de taal
verdwaalt in zijn oorsprong, de tijd
steeds sneller zich inhaalt zich uitstelt
zo volmaakt was het nooit
zo voldaan als ingeslikt water
en is het ook nu -
© 1998, Gerrit Kouwenaar
From: Helder maar grijzer. Gedichten 1978 - 1996
Publisher: Em. Querido's Uitgeverij b.v. Amsterdam,
From: Helder maar grijzer. Gedichten 1978 - 1996
Publisher: Em. Querido's Uitgeverij b.v. Amsterdam,
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Eat while you can of all this
Eat while you can of all thisbeauty continually replenishing itself
eat and digest and comprehend it
now this flesh is ever more intimately
dispossessing itself in the mirror, language
lapsing into its source, time ever faster
gaining on and putting off its self
never before was it as perfect as this
as exquisite as water in the throat
as it is now –
From: Helder maar grijzer. Gedichten 1978 - 1996
Eat while you can of all this
Eat while you can of all thisbeauty continually replenishing itself
eat and digest and comprehend it
now this flesh is ever more intimately
dispossessing itself in the mirror, language
lapsing into its source, time ever faster
gaining on and putting off its self
never before was it as perfect as this
as exquisite as water in the throat
as it is now –
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