The folly of honest men, David Howard (Nueva Zelanda)
David nosmanda este poema inspirado en Esther Dischereit, a quien podemos ver en una de sus lecturas en la pasada V edición del Festival.
The folly of honest men
for Esther DischereitThere’s too much work to shirk –
the work of girls you would like to ask out,
the work of boys you dream of beating up in front of those girls,
the work of
the foreign photographer who watches
because he wants to know who you are in order
to order
black & white
thoughts. If he asks you will give a false name.
You are true to nature.
He produces a smile the way migrants produce papers,
ruefully. He breathes the day as politicians breathe
acid ink
on a treaty they’ll ignore. The birds pass
over everything you fought for. The folly of honest men,
the honour…
Utopia is meaningless if not criminal (Gerhard Richter).
The sky is redder than engine oil, redder than
the water
fluttering like a fine campaign ribbon
across a country that’s governed by memories yet scared for
the future;
a country that supervises limbo
as if it was one more statue honouring Walter Ulbricht
or Karl Marx.
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