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Alban Nikolai Herbst

Die Brüste der Béart

Ich bleibe verloren ins Spiel Deiner Waden, / verloren in Deine Erscheinung, Béart / Wie einer durch die Stadt schweift / und sieht nur die Füße der Frauen, / weil ein jedes Gesicht eine Welt ist, / die wir in Wahrheit nicht wollen, / die sich in Wahrheit nicht will, / die sich in Wahrheit gefüllt will mit andrem / Selbstbild als Fremdbild
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Diane Williams

How about some string?

I said “Would you like a rope? You know that haul you have is not secured properly.”
“No,” he said, “but I see you have string!”
“If this comes into motion—” I said, “you should use a rope.”
“Any poison ivy on that? ” he asked me, and I told him my rope had been in the barn peacefully for years.
He took a length of it to the bedside table. He had no concept for what wood could endure.
“Table must have broken when I lashed it onto the truck,” he said.
And, when he was moving the sewing machine, he let the cast iron wheels—bang, bang on the stair.
I had settled down to pack up the flamingo cookie jar, the cutlery, and the cookware, but stopped briefly, for how many times do you catch sudden sight of something heartfelt?
I saw our milk cows in their slow...

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