III

an entire night i lay awake in berlin in my ear still the wave of the sea of glass
and after the order of melchisedek out of an open window
through an open door in the staircase the sound of the ram's horn
the wine instead of blood spurted forth from the spout of the thirteenth tankard
                                                                   fed by the conversation from five mouths
all was well even the carnal word 
holy as ever cut into the folio leaves the scroll
and smoke of the brand filled the room with its strong smell of caramel
for onto my hips someone had pressed the iron of serfdom
down below there you were lying in front of the electrical lamps of tempelhof
tilled tracks o dark zone now silent
thus you wrote marvelling now that i stay silent
as if i as the sixth had not been present even when the third one had left
                                                                                  spirit-like at the silesian station 
and the hand of the clock snapped forward to one
it was then that i left you waiting for 19 minutes and i was the flamenco poster
lips smiling and saw exactly how you crumpled the ticket 
to altseidenberg via goerlitz in your coat pocket
too fast for me coming down the high road the yellow shell at your hat 
                                                          pushed down in the face with burning  tongue
punished  you therefore to lie for three hours penned in
with the three birds sleepless thoughtless dreamless
but next to you was slumbering the ferrarese princess
washed out in the black stream the exchange of umbrellas chair falling hat falling
picked you up walked to the garden on the left and showed you twice
this so titanic nemlich as one replaces the other
because of the doubt in addition three indessen on page 28, 39, and 75
much too concerning fenster which erstwhile was too difficult for you
below in the fasanenstrasse quietly the engine was started of the 
                                                     brandnew daimler green as oysters from bremen 
you fell asleep beginning to sing
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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