E·ratio

Issue 21

 

 

 

Written On Mars

 

Tomáš Přidal

 

translated by Brokolis

 

 

 

 

a beginning

 

 

carrying something again

interesting

 

putting huge white cubes

one atop another

 

it might look like this

after death

 

an empty space

disappearing in infinity

 

this might be

how paper is made

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

books and dogs

 

 

pulling behind

a book on a collar

 

like a dog

refusing to move

 

in a park

on a bench

it jumps into my lap

 

it likes

to be browsed in

 

just watch out

for the lady

who decided

 

to walk

something by

George Sand

 

Hold your beast

 

she’s yelling to me

 

from afar

 

Too late

 

letters fly away

from our dogs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

mars milk

 

 

speed of light

speed of light

speed of light

 

set in the plate

with flakes in it

 

speed of light

speed of light

speed of light

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

turtle

 

 

the turtle grew up hence the house got small twenty meters

thirty meters forty meters fifty meters

the first floor gone sixty meters seventy meters

eighty meters ninety meters a hundred a hundred and ten

the roof fucked

 

before that all hidden in a closed knockity-knock

turtle’s head peeps in papa dragged by the leg

pops! pops! (CRUNCH)

mama dragged by the leg mumsy! mumsy! (CRUNCH)

enfants dragged by their legs (CRUNCH CRUNCH)

 

before that the dosage of salad found inadequate

more salad s’il vous plait merci

all of a sudden the aquarium crack crack

blimey won’t fit

under the sofa

a small pet into a big one

 

before that papa bore something in a box

enfants cheered mama smiled

a box with holes

breaths from within

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

photo booth

 

 

the photo booth

has my face

the phone booth

speaks in my voice

the mailbox

breathes like me

my steps are watched over

by the public swimming pool

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

weather

 

 

we all are a bit anxious

and in a lack of sleep

 

the government rules the weather

airplanes inoculate the clouds with filth

 

we all are a bit anxious

 

noone knows

who happens to be the new simulation

 

and who a member

of the new undergound movement

 

we all are a bit anxious

 

it is not common

to find a letter in your mailbox stating:

 

he moved the tray and she turned back

 

we all are a bit anxious

 

500mg

depakine chrono

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

wallnut

 

 

a wallnut is free

like a squirrel

 

the shell may

fail

or not

 

where the squirrel fails

a hammer steps in

 

when the hammer gives in

a stone-eater slides in

 

broken teeth

all over

 

a wallnut is free

like an acid

 

folic acid

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

w. b. yeats: stuffed eggs

 

 

Stuffed eggs

tread in my dreams

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sushi hotel

 

 

Open the door

let the fox collar in

it rains on sushi

let them in too

 

Open the door

prepare for tea

the fox collar

wants to warm up

 

Open the door

the fox collar still there

just to dry up a bit

and get going soon

 

Open the door

this is a sushi hotel

warm up the fish

give them your goodbye

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hegel’s vacation

 

 

Day

thesis

 

Night

antithesis

 

Astronomical day

synthesis

 

Just what is

 today right now

 

A turn

around an axis

 

a glass of water

upon an umbrella

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tomáš Přidal is online at http://sartrr.blogspot.cz/.

 

 


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