Drawing by Judith Wolfe
Peycho Kanev

Poem


      CONFESSION

      something penetrates my soul
      and I don't know what it is
      is this death or something
      worse?

      I am still the same
      drinking till the end
      and my girl ask me
      why I do it
      and I answer

      I drink to keep my soul away
      from my body

      and she says wooow…

      I know I love her
      but I don't have the guts
      to confess her that

      she saves me from all the things
      that I love

      she makes that horrible darkness
      that crawling slowly towards me
      to take step back.

      CLOSING TIME

      it was a bad night
      and today is a vary bad day-
      Sunday

      hangover
      shaking hand
      pain

      and I try to listen to Wagner and
      Carl Orff
      but it doesn't help
      and I try to watch Brando in
      Apocalypse now but it's useless
      and I try to read Hemingway
      but it's no help at all

      just an endless day

      outside
      the little girl laughs
      and the boys smile

      and the sun looks to me
      like an enemy

      and Hitler's mama cries in her
      grave.

      MASQUERADE

      sometimes I am

      summer highway
      touched by the sun in its end

      some other time I pretend

      that I am someone great:
      Mahler,Tuluz-Lotrek,Beethoven,Van Gogh
      pace in the room with hands behind my back
      look through the window
      until everything disappear.

      I'm waiting in my room one friend of mine
      and watch the desk-

      cigarettes
      lighter
      glass ashtray books coins
      silent phone at the end

      I imagine

      desert cactus tequila
      cats and rain
      umbrella new shoes
      and warm fireplace
      ….

      my friend enters:
      “Where's your head at?”

      I shook myself from the world
      and put two glasses

      like I always do.


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