06-22-2013, 01:59 AM
The alley of linden trees oozed out honey into the nocturnal air …
May had been delayed till deep June.
Butterflies and bees pouted like wallflowers
whose lovers had not shown up at their rendez-vous
and some even grieved so much that they died.
A hedgehog scampered over the lawn,
the secret of his astonishing speed
safeguarded smirkingly by a conspirative night.
Next to this prickly fellow a man obviously
untrained in moving around on all fours
seemed to be looking for something
he had lost: sobriety, balance or money
or possibly all of these valuables at the same time.
I gave the compelling inner coherence
of my assumption based upon the human condition
a passing thought while passing this human by,
benevolently pretending nonchalant neglect of his misery,
before returning again to take care of my own.
...........................................................................................
A hedgehog, unlike the one whose brain and guts I saw spread over the asphalt last night (to my lesser delight), when still in good shape, looks like this sometimes:
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May had been delayed till deep June.
Butterflies and bees pouted like wallflowers
whose lovers had not shown up at their rendez-vous
and some even grieved so much that they died.
A hedgehog scampered over the lawn,
the secret of his astonishing speed
safeguarded smirkingly by a conspirative night.
Next to this prickly fellow a man obviously
untrained in moving around on all fours
seemed to be looking for something
he had lost: sobriety, balance or money
or possibly all of these valuables at the same time.
I gave the compelling inner coherence
of my assumption based upon the human condition
a passing thought while passing this human by,
benevolently pretending nonchalant neglect of his misery,
before returning again to take care of my own.
...........................................................................................
A hedgehog, unlike the one whose brain and guts I saw spread over the asphalt last night (to my lesser delight), when still in good shape, looks like this sometimes:
[attachment=96]