First I did not intend
To leave my calling card
With web-addresses for
My written oeuvre
But then as I gave my card to
Waltraud
I gave another to Mohammed
However I’ve stepped aside
Yet recipients with a degree
Might have a trained mind
To understand my writings.
Perhaps one day they could
Become famous.
My good intentions to do more
Writing and translating
Were foiled by excellent TV-docs
And movies:
“Die Auslöschung” with
Klaus Maris Brandauer
„Pandora and the Flying Dutchman“
With Ava Gardner and James Mason.
You sit challenged by the motions
Of the Badner Bahn –
Houses
Flats
Stations pass
Industrial buildings
Corporate Headquarters zip by
With average speed of the train’s
Traditional coaches in blue and
Ivory.
This trip is at least fluid and the
U4 from Karlsplatz/Opera arrives
Speedily in Heiligenstadt.
The trouble lies with Bus 241
Leaving every half hour from
The Weidling station
Where I have to change over from
Bus 239.
Fortunately I’ve packed an umbrella
But the weather report is out of
Order.
B’s away at the city’s green market
And my turn to clean the bedsitter’s
Laminated floor
Do the washing of my clothes
Cook my meal and write up
My journal-poetry.
I’ll be now fit enough.
zoltanzelan
ZJG-POetry’18.
