berlin wall in d..c.
*IN PRAISE OF A LONELY GLASS OF ORANGE JUICE-6
-FIRST-
LOAD OF TEXT AND SOBER VARIATIONS IN SOCIAL REALISM OR ARTSOCIALREALISTS
(IN ONE WORD!)
.....
-SECOND-
A MIXED SEQUEL TO
"IN PRAISE OF A LONELY GLASS OF ORANGE JUICE"
STALIN IN CROSSROAD OR SUSPECTED SHOW OF GREAT FEAR
.....
AFTER INTERMISSION
JOSEF STALIN IS BROKEN AND TIED UP AND JUST FALLEN FROM PLATFORM AND THE PAINTER IS BUSY PAINTING LIPS OF GENERALISMO TAVARISH IN BLUE AND BLACK JOSEF BRODSKY IS PUTTING ON SALE ALL MEDALS AND DECORATIONS AND HATS AND SHOULDER STRAPS IN 14TH STREET ,NEW YORK ,IN FRONT OF A HEADLESS STATUE NERUDA IS RECITING HIS REMORSEFULL POEMS AND BERLIN WALL AS A SOUVENIR OF TOURISTS AND KHRUSHCHEV'S SHOE WITH A HOLE AND EMPTY GLASS SHOT OF BREZHNEV AND BERIA AND MALENKOFF WHO ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION WITH MILITARY SALUTE AND THE MOON MARK ON NONCAMARADE GORBACHEV'S FOREHEAD
A SOUVENIR FROM WEST AND AN EMPTY BOTTLE IN THE HANDS OF REVOLUTIONARY TANK TRAVELLERS AND A BROKEN BASEBALL BAT IN CUBAN GULF OF FLORIDA. BRECHT SAID I WANT TO BOTHER YOU EVEN AFTER MY DEATH AND TORN IRON CURTAIN FALLS. SHOSTAKOVITCH AND PROKOVIEF SMILE ANA AKHMATOVA RECITES BUT IT IS ONLY BLOOD THAT SMELLS BLOOD
THEY TOOK AWAY OSSIP MANDELSHTAM AGAIN BY A CARGO TRAIN STORKS ARE FLYING BEHIND THE WINDOWS MARIA TSVETEVA YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN A LONELY WOMAN ON THIS EARTH
AND A SILHOUETTE BEHIND THE WINDOW
A CLOUD CLAD SUN
WHO WAS PASSING OAKLANDS AND RUSHING TRAVELLERS GOING IN EVERYDAY LAZY HIGHWAYS OF COMPETITION WITHOUT CAUSE
AND I SAW THEIR SHIELDS FALLING ON DIRT
WHO IS SINGINGING?
WHO IS CRYING?
IN:FREEDOM PARK ,NEWSEUM,ARLINGTON
MARCH 5,2003
(from faramarz soleimani's in praise of a lonely glass of orange juice
the third song of reveries-2
subdevision publishing,vancouver,british columbia,canada
spring 2004,pp9-11
translated by the poet)
POSTED NOVEMBER 9,2009
ON 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF FALL OF BERLIN WALL.
...WITH THAT SHAMEFUL FALL
YOU WOULD THINK:
WHAT THE HELL WAS
A WALL
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HALL
WAS THAT ALL
THEY PERCEPTED OF
POLITICS?
AND AS HILLARY SAID:
"OUR HISTORY DID NOT END THAT NIGHT
IT BEGAN ANEW."
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november 2010
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