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January 12, 2008

the corpse-grinders of berlin - episode 30

Filed under: literature, acéphale — ABRAXAS @ 11:37 am

CONCLUSION

Sometimes
All it takes
Is the smallest detail
To turn something beautiful
Into something ugly.
Sometimes such a
Transformation is easy
But it’s more difficult
The other way around.
That’s why television,
Insensitivity, speed
Spread out with such ease
Because it’s not doing
The difficult work.

On sale now
All the worst ideas in history
Renovated, masked, blown-up, distorted.
On sale now
The steady decline of quality
For the sake of mass-production
For the sake of Democracy.
On sale now
The loss of morality
The loss of history
The loss of courage
All those things which are too heavy
And which sink to the bottom
Of this ocean of tranquility
Like a treasure chest.

How far I had to search
To a small village
In the middle of nowhere
Lost between Poland and Russia
To find a lack of business spirit
A lack of enterprise
An ancient and living connection to life.

Once when you were married
You were married for life
With no chance of escape.
But now it’s just as bad
You can only marry, in fact
Divorce
With a small Purgatory in between.

Even though it’s all wrong
Nothing forever changes
Because nobody wants to lose their job
Nobody wants to lose face
People are willing to call a spade a spade
But never a nigger.

A big black man
Was crying
Telling me that somewhere
Something was going to change
Very soon
And it would spread everywhere
Berlin maybe
Maybe Warsaw
But it would change absolutely everything
And everything absolutely
It would be a revolution of the heart
Just watch and see.
The tears ran down his face
And I didn’t believe a word of it.

Brussels – Amsterdam
Autumn
In the fear of our Lord, 1958

2 Responses to “the corpse-grinders of berlin - episode 30”

  1. Derek Davey Says:

    Thats cooking

  2. little feet Says:

    only words jeffrey but when one need action u turn 2 change into a coward.
    and your brain get lost in your dick…
    a looser pretending 2 b free-hooked on social money..full of feer of every door ring..
    little feet

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