Meanwhile in Budapest
Out of a blue sky
a thunderstorm ambushed
the breakfast crowd
a gigantic grass stampeed
naked fish
steamed in a railroadcan
midst essences of hormonal mouthwash
They – like cattle ready for slaughter – stared@
a squadron of the Spanish Armada
searching frentic
Picasso left
already
with Gauguin
to the south of France
Courbet, Corot and Rodin
guided me
to
“Christ Carrying the Cross”
(again you might think
doesn’t he get tired
of carrying
that heavy load!?),
but this time
Sebastiano del Piombo
made Him do it.
(And how!)
1. In a penitency
cloak
haloing sadness
and inner pain
haloing sadness
and inner pain
2. With long fingers
stretched tired
over the beam
as was it the moment
before blowing on a frail flute
a funeral elegy
over the beam
as was it the moment
before blowing on a frail flute
a funeral elegy
3. Against a carbon
grey background
absorbing the obscured surrounding
dissolving into the panel in which His Sorrow is kept.
absorbing the obscured surrounding
dissolving into the panel in which His Sorrow is kept.
His Pain varnished the pigment
His Blessing lacquered the varnish
“Mas mojitos” seemed to be the
answer to all party preguntas
***
Brussels
Swamp, Village,
City, Iris
Museums stuffed,
dinosaurs
Pissing
girl, pissing boy
Cathedral,
chorus, Ode of Joy
We are
Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
Pentagon,
small ring, Leopold,
Louise,
Haren, Laeken. Hold!
Neder-over-heembeek.
Who to assimilate
next? Strombeek
Waterloo,
Braine, Rode or Anderlecht?
We are
Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
Fortifications,
Revolution, Frenchification, EU
We are
Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
Baudelaire,
Blanc and Boulanger
They fled
here due to grave danger
Jacques
Louis David
Painted and
ran, vite vite vite
Dumas, Hugo
and Proudhon too
They wrote around
here a book or two
And than
there was Rodin
At Bourse -
they say - enfin
He sculpted
nudes to feed his kin
Africa - Asia,
the original sin
A writer
and trader of coffee and tea
Welcome the
writer Multatuli
Verlaine,
Rimbaud poetically rebelled
Engels and Marx,
even got expelled
We are
Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
Brel,
Bertrand and Thielemans
Let’s here
it, any fans?
and yeah (oh
God) Marc Dutroux
He’s on my
list of people too
Erasing
evil with the Singing Nun
She sang
until her cross was hung
Audrey Hepburn
film-dream mythology
Lévi-Strauss
structural anthropology
We are
Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
Peyo drew
smurfs
Hergé
Tintin
Poelaert
buildings, eclectic sin
The list
goes on
with Tits and
Tome
Spaak, Toussaint,
Van Damme, Tramont
van
Istendael, Vesalius too
Impressive,
isn’t it, this who’s who.
We are
Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
Arno,
Barnard, Béjart and Brouwers
Brueghel, Bucquoy
with his panties with flowers
Erasmus, Horta,
Hoxha, Magritte
Merckx, the
Canibal, are also in this heat
Solvay, the
chemist, the business, but, look
van der
Weyden, Van Gogh, yeah Vincent, and van Ruysbroeck
HUB, VUB, ULB
Erasmus and
Saint-Louis
The
officers of the military
We are
Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
Old
politics, new politics, unemployment, gay,
Magreb,
Congo, the US and the UK
Russia,
China, Asia, Africa,
intercultural
monologue, asylum seeking algebra
We are
Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
advertize
africanize
americanize
arabize
balkanize
barbarize
bastardize
colonize
colorize
commercialize
communalize
demonize
dogmatize
dramatize
emotionalize
eroticize
europeanize
feminize
fetishize
feudalize
fossilize
ghettoize
legalize
merchandize
patronize
penalize
radicalize
stigmatize
terrorize
trivialize
urbanize
vandalize
victimize
vulgarize
compromize
USS
Enterprise
We are
Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
Bashing,
slashing, attacking and winning
Parliaments,
governments, Councils and predicaments
Ministries,
committees, agencies, communities,
Asylum
seekers, NGO’s, Representatives and fugitives,
Journalists,
socialists, communists,
economists,
anarchists, lobbyists,
politicians,
physicians, doctors, nurses,
diplomats,
bureaucrats, eurocrats, curses
We are
Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
We are
Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
We are Brussels.
Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
We are
Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
We are
Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
***
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rhythmic, fantastic, realistic, I like it
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