Walking the hindrance route
Of County Offices in Vienna
A local specialty
Like Wiener Schnitzel
But less tasty
Yet a superb all-sense experience
If you’ll make it thru’ all places
At prescribed times
And thru’ all properly filled-in
Application forms.
Unavoidably irritating.
Repetitive data:
The great regurgitation
Time and again.
Stumbling blocks on the way
Of reaching ones goal
Pounding the well known
Granite cobblestones!
Relaxing at a pit-stop café
Opposite the grand dome
Of St Stephan.
The clap-clap of horse hooves
A pacifying sound.
Hanging on to basic philosophical
Thoughts about life.
‘You’ll need a two year period
Of living continually in Vienna
Before you may submit an
Official form for a residence-card
And choose a county office
Administered flat
Even offered on the free
Residential market.
FLAT.TALF
zoltanzelan
ZJG-POetry’19.