Mon lit est un cinéma …
Eines Seemanns Klage / A sailors lament
Armament For War. Aufrüstung für Krieg. / engl rbt trntn dwnstrs
Armament for war.
Of course, a terrible despair comes over me these days.
Once again, political elections are looming
and it is inevitably certain that those
will win with the narrow eyes –
those with the eyes of fear –
the eyes of war –
while they talk about freedom.
But whether they are also thinking of the many war dead, for whom they are thus preparing such freedom in their dark graves, cannot really be the case.
Such thoughts do not concern them.
They do not let such thoughts in.
The landscapes of their fantasies are passionate only in this:
‚we want maximum destructive cruise missiles and airplanes –
heavy and richly hung with bombs like the pear trees in this poem by Hölderlin …
… we want to be masters and controllers of this fear …
… we want to destroy it so completely that we no longer have to look at it …
… and above all else: that it never dares to look at us again! ‚.
..
They will not mention the name ‚Hölderlin‘ … nor the pear trees …
I will –
… alone …
… it is necessary …
– to somehow still be able to continue speaking in my despair-.
because I too will be a victim …
..
by the way –
he was not mistaken in speaking of pears instead of bombs hanging from the trees …
if he was now living …
locked up in a tower somewhere …
he would have done it … ..
… and I can literally see the ink from his goose quill drying very slowly still
on the old old paper ….
… does not want to stop drying …
keeps on drying …
and finds no end to it …
… all the warmth of the light and the sun every next day is not enough to bring it to an end …
this tower still stands somewhere …
his disheveled goose quill still hovers over the last word of the line -…
no eye catches it …
Centuries away he has begun to write these words …
..
then he stopped because there was a knock at the door …
… it was the man who has been coming every three months for 29 years
to cut his hair …
Anrufung / Invocation
This concerns Germany on the Occasion of the Voting in February 2025.
ANRUFUNG : INVOCATION. Parties waging into war: SPD – GREENS – CDU – FDP :
Parteien die in Krieg führen. NO Voice for them.
Ritual No. 13. – Walking up the trees –
Ritual No. 13. – One day in September I had the terribly happy desire to walk up all the trees in my vicinity just by feet vertically.. leaving my arms and hands in the air by my sides. – Just to balance my equilibrium a bit. And as you can see here: Finally I did!