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  • The Night
    Sleepy policemen waddle under streetlights.
    Broken beggars grumble when they sense people.
    On some corners powerful streetcars stutter.
    And plush cabs drop into the stars. ...
  • The Operation
    In the sunlight doctors tear a woman apart.
    Here the open red body gapes. And heavy blood
    Flows, dark wine, into a white bowl. One sees
    Very clearly the rose-red cyst. Lead gray, ...
  • Ash Wednesday
    Yesterday I still went powdered and addicted
    Into the many-colored sounding world.
    Today everything has long since drowned.
    Here is a thing. ...
  • Invasion
    Decline already -
    But that was quick...
    Hardly a trace of rising -
    I have grown above the whole world. ...
  • Pathos
    You don't love me... I have never appealed to you...
    Was never your type...
    And my hard eyes annoy you, my darling...
    I'm too dark for you. And too coarse - ...
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The Winter Pear
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Is always Age severe?
Is never Youth austere?
Spring-fruits are sour to eat;
Autumn's the mellow time.
Nay, very late in the year,
Short day and frosty rime,
Thought, like a winter pear,
Stone-cold in summer's prime,
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