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J. Bernlef
Conservatory
The conservatory windows are wide openinside someone is molesting age-old emotions
the grand piano moans and laments
In the park swallows skim the grass
harvesting air and insects
How to live? For what?
Big questions befitting small answers
As precise as these swallows who give
flitting double-quick
Someone inside suddenly stops playing
curses, closing his piano like a wing.
Conservatorium
Conservatorium
De ramen van het conservatorium staan wijdopendaarbinnen vergrijpt iemand zich aan eeuwenoude gevoelens
de vleugel jammert en klaagt
In het park scheren zwaluwen het gras
oogsten lucht en insecten
Hoe te leven? Voor wat?
Grote wagen waarop kleine antwoorden passen
Zo precies als deze zwaluwen die geven
vliegensvlug
Iemand daarbinnen houdt plotseling op met spelen
vloekt en slaat zijn vleugel dicht.
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Conservatory
The conservatory windows are wide openinside someone is molesting age-old emotions
the grand piano moans and laments
In the park swallows skim the grass
harvesting air and insects
How to live? For what?
Big questions befitting small answers
As precise as these swallows who give
flitting double-quick
Someone inside suddenly stops playing
curses, closing his piano like a wing.
Conservatory
The conservatory windows are wide openinside someone is molesting age-old emotions
the grand piano moans and laments
In the park swallows skim the grass
harvesting air and insects
How to live? For what?
Big questions befitting small answers
As precise as these swallows who give
flitting double-quick
Someone inside suddenly stops playing
curses, closing his piano like a wing.
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