vrijdag 14 november 2014

GEORGETOWN




Lying on the grass of the Esplanade l’m reading
in the biography you gave me when we parted.
Once he was a shark, cruising through the deepest currents,
but now the ebb asserts itself, with foaming reefs laid bare.

How a man in this town is sucked old and dry.
What the later life of an exile might have been:
you here, to make the tea, to starch my uniform,
and quieten down my little friend.

Even these orders I no longer issue, scrape rust
off the flatiron, take the ferry to Butterworth
and back, read Chinese verse, and linger every night
beneath the colonnades as if belonging here. And wait.






Publisher: In de Knipscheer, December 2003.
Book: € 15,00, cd (music by Dirk Stromberg): € 18,00. Set book + cd: € 29,50.
Postbox 6107, 2011 HC Haarlem, The Netherlands.




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