red song [for Breyten Breytenbach]

nothing I write can satisfy me today
so I read some Breyten Breytenbach
shut up
Breyten Breytenbach
shut up

in Paris where the women chant
life
woman
liberty
and bare their breasts

the
life the
woman the
liberty

the end cannot satisfy me neither
can the beginning

you are the same age as my mother
and two years younger than my
father
would be

I learnt from you the terms of exile
the émigré
a play set in a prisoncell

teeth crack on a toilet bowl
the jolt of a good poem


 in memoriam Breyten Breytenbach
    16 September 1939 - 24 November 2024

                    [26.11.2024]