Berliner Totentanz 1

zu St. Marien


fig.1:
›Ich habe die edlen herren wert
Als ein herzog regieret – mit dem schwert!‹
›In knochenkleid steh ich nu im glanz:
Kein entkommen hier beim totntanz‹

fig.2:
tod:

© 1999 DuMont Buchverlag, Köln
De: Fernhandel
Köln: DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag, 1999
ISBN: 3-7701-4952-1
Producción de Audio: 1999 DeutschlandRadio

[because under normal circumstances I have grown up]

because under normal circumstances
I have grown up
and I became an adult during the crisis years
my poetry is a poetry
of the crisis
in which I have burst open and write
with what remains
the mess I don’t clean up
letting it grow warm
in my hands, my innards
and the network
that gets overheated
showing the not exactly subtle reality
of someone
who is twenty-seven in 2015
and doesn’t add up to the description of his reality

Translated by Donald Gardner