Friday, April 21, 2006
Aldo Buzzi's "Peace"

Look: here is the drop
That makes the camel overflow,
The straw
That breaks the vessel’s back.
The drop that breaks the vessel’s back,
The straw that makes the camel overflow,
The vessel that breaks the drop’s back,
The drop that breaks the straw’s back,
The straw
Whose immersion of the drop
Fails to break
The goddamn camel’s back.
But now, finally: peace.
The blessed drop falls,
The vessel overflows.
And you, blessed straw,
Add your burden to the staggering, cursed camel
And break its back.
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I think I recongize that piece of music. From some old B movie? Maybe in the oeuvre of Yaphet Frederick Kotto?
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