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Seven Rolls

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Seven Rolls [1]

Ernst Jandl [2]

Translated by xia23

 

Between the tea of morning

And the evening dishwashing                                                                                      

He eats seven rolls –

One for the morning tea

One for the mid-morning snack

Two for lunch

With knife and fork

Crumbled in coffee for snack

And the last two

For dinner

Before dishwashing.

 

In between

Between meals

He glues silver stars

On the wall of the kid’s room.

 

Sometimes he has to step on the table

Sometimes that is not high enough, then he puts

A chair on the table.

 

When he has finished

then climbing down

He steps back down

And looks at his works from afar.

 

Seventeenth row right

Eighth row right

Second row right

Eleventh row left

Seventeenth row right

Twentieth row right

Thirteenth row left

Second row right

Third row left

Tenth row left

Eighteenth row left

Thirteenth row right

Fourth row left

Second row right

Seventh row left

Fourteenth row left

Nineteenth row right

Seventh row left

Third row left

Thirteenth row left

What will my biographer

Make of it one day?

 

[1]. p. 29.  Sieben Semmeln. Kontakt mit der Zeit. Dieter Stöpfgeshoff. Max Hueber Verlag. Germany, 1995.

[2]. Ernst Jandl. 8/1/1925 – 6/9/2000. A high school teacher in Vienna, language teacher, language critic, writer, radio theater writer.  p. 28. ibid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Jandl

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

 

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