Do you like me?”
No answer.
Silence bounced, fell off his tongue
and sat between us
and clogged my throat.
It slaughtered my trust.
It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.
We exchanged blind words,
and I did not cry,
I did not beg,
but blackness filled my ears,
blackness lunged in my heart,
and something that had been good,
a sort of kindly oxygen,
turned into a gas oven.
Stichwörter: love heartbreak rejection
I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.
Anne SextonIt doesn't matter who my father was, it matters who I remember he was.
Anne SextonThe Witch's Life"
When I was a child
there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch.
All day she peered from her second story
window
from behind the wrinkled curtains
and sometimes she would open the window
and yell: Get out of my life!
She had hair like kelp
and a voice like a boulder.
I think of her sometimes now
and wonder if I am becoming her.
Cigarettes and Whiskey and Wild, Wild Women"
Perhaps I was born kneeling,
born coughing on the long winter,
born expecting the kiss of mercy,
born with a passion for quickness
and yet, as things progressed,
I learned early about the stockade
or taken out, the fume of the enema.
By two or three I learned not to kneel,
not to expect, to plant my fires underground
where none but the dolls, perfect and awful,
could be whispered to or laid down to die.
Now that I have written many words,
and let out so many loves, for so many,
and been altogether what I always was—
a woman of excess, of zeal and greed,
I find the effort useless.
Do I not look in the mirror,
these days,
and see a drunken rat avert her eyes?
Do I not feel the hunger so acutely
that I would rather die than look
into its face?
I kneel once more,
in case mercy should come
in the nick of time.
From "Her Kind"
I have found the warm caves in the woods,
filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves,
closets, silks, innumerable goods;
fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves:
whining, rearranging the disaligned.
A woman like that is misunderstood.
I have been her kind.
and God was there like an island I had not rowed to,
still ignorant of Him, my arms, and my legs worked,
and I grew, I grew,
I wore rubies and bought tomatoes
and now, in my middle age,
about nineteen in the head I'd say,
I am rowing, I am rowing
though the oarlocks stick and are rusty
and the sea blinks and rolls
like a worried eyebal,
but I am rowing, I am rowing,
though the wind pushes me back
and I know that that island will not be perfect,
it will have the flaws of life,
the absurdities of the dinner table,
but there will be a door
and I will open it
and I will get rid of the rat insdie me,
the gnawing pestilential rat.
God will take it with his two hands
and embrace it
Our bodies were trash.
We leave them on the shore.
أريـد أن أمـوت
بما أنكم تسألون، فلا أتذكّر معظم الأيام.
أسير في لباسي، لا أشعرُ بزخم الرّحيل.
حينها يعود ذاك الشّبق الذي لا يسمّى.
حتّى و إن لم يكن لدي شيءٌ ضد الحياة.
فأنا أعرف جيّدا شفير الأعشاب التي تذكرون,
ذاك الأثاث الذي وضعتم تحت حرقة الشمس.
غير أنّ الانتحارات لها لغتها الخاصّة.
تماماً مثل النجّار
يريد أن يعرف كيف يستخدم الأدوات،
لكنّه لم يسأل مطلقاً لماذا يبني!.
لمرّتين وببساطة أعلنتُ نَفْسي,
امتلكت العدُوْ, ابتلعت العُدو,
وعلى مَرْكبه أخذت معي سِحْره.
وفي هذه الطريق، مُثقلة و مُستغرقة
أدفأ من الزيت أو الماء,
أنا قد استرحت,
وسال من فوهة فمي لعاب.
لم أفكّر في جسدي عندَ وخزة الإبرة.
حتّى قرنيّتي وما بقي في من بَوْل، اختفى.
الانتحارات كانت قد خانت الجسَد مسبقاً.
اليافعون لا يموتون في العادة،
غير أنّهم يُبهرون, لا يستطيعون نسيان لذّة مُخدّر
حتّى أنّهم ينظرون للأطفال ويبتسمون.
أن تَسحَقَ كلّ تلك الحياة تحت لسانك!
ذلك بحد ذاته, يستحيلُ عاطفة.
ستقول، موت لعَظْمةٍ بائسةٍ ومُجرّحة.
ومع ذلك ستنتظرني هي عاماً بعد عام،
لأمحو هكذا برقّةٍ جُرْحاً قديماً،
لأفرّغ شهقتي من سجنها البائس.
نتّزن هنالك, الانتحارات تلتقي أحياناً,
نحتدّ عند فاكهة و قمر مفقوء,
تاركين كِسرةَ الخبز التي أخطأتها قبلاتهم.
تاركين
صفحةَ كتاب مفتوحة مُهْملة،
و سمّاعة هاتف معلّقَة
لشيء لم يُلفظ بعد,
أمّا الحُبْ، أيّاً يكُن
ليسَ إلاّ وبـاء.
Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.
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