Caballos en Möenchengladbach
 
Among telephone listenings, and hidden cameras,
on a terrace in Germany, and infiltrators: 
as waiters, at noon and at three,
-- and at nine o'clock and at six --,
a delivery man, 
and customers of every creed:  
two lesbians, a Bateman and a mystical marriage. 
<<  Wait for me to give you the order  >>, in a racecourse,
and infiltrators: 
white slave traffic in the next table.
I pretend to be betting,  
among topics of conversation of poor quality:
these are concerns that you do not take to a desert island. 
And they serve us a couple of Martinis  -- the man at noon --, 
and a couple of misfortunes -- the television --,
and mixed messages: Interpol's background noise. 
<< Not yet! >>, -- I ordered them --, 
and floods in Australia and droughts,
and indebted states,
and the resurgence of the Fascists,
and << Not yet! >>. 
And while At last !, It was time !, they play the cards
-- passports, lives: girls in exchange for euros -- those of the next table,  
the Stock Market is red or green, 
earthquakes, typhoons, tsunamis,
and black men losing a war,
and I'm still working on this for the rest of the afternoon,
although disasters queuing to eliminate us,
all of these are coming to my << Now! >>.
And while the world falls apart,
tell me what the hell I do
(forced voyeur)
on a day like this,  
speaking of horses in Möenchengladbach.
 
			
			
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