Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Richard Huelsenbeck


per la morte di hausmann by richard huelsenbeck

 

The cows sit on the telegraph poles and play chess 
The cockatoo under the skirts of the Spanish dancer 
Sings as sadly as a headquaters bugler and the cannon lament all day 
That is the lavender landscape Herr Mayer was talking about 
when he lost his eye 
Only the fire department can drive the nightmare from the drawing- 
room bur all the hoses are broken 
Ah yes Sonya they all take the celluloid doll for a changeling 
and shout: God save the King 
The whole Monist Club is gathered on the steamship Meyerbeer 
But only the pilot has any conception of high C 
I pull the anatomical atlas out of my toe 
a serious study begins 
Have you seen the fish that have been standing in front of the 
opera in cutaways 
for the last two days and nights...? 
Ah ah ye great devils - ah ah ye keepers of bees and commandments 
With a bow wow wow with a bow woe woe who does today not know 
what our Father Homer wrote 
I hold peace and war in my toga but I'll take a cherry flip 
Today nobody knows whether he was tomorrow 
They beat time with a coffin lid 
If somebody had the nerve to rip the tail feathers 
out of the trolley car it's a great age 
The professors of zoology gather in the medows 
With the palms of their hands they turn back the rainbows 
the great magician sats the tomatoes on his forehead 
Again thou hauntest castle and grounds 
The roebuck whistles the stallion bounds 
(And this is how the world is this is all that's ahead of us). 


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