Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Not so lifeless



In an effort to get back to reading an occasional non-farm related book I grabbed a collection of poems by Zbigniew Herbert to be my bed companion last night. Here's a beauty:


Objects

Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with
anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to another, or a bed rear
on its hind legs. And tables, even when they are tired, will not dare to bend their knees.
I suspect that objects do this from pedagogical considerations, to reprove us
constantly for our instability.


1 comment:

  1. also,
    a chair
    is there
    to hold
    in air
    wan derriere
    and take
    the heat
    off defeet

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