From "Now 1/3"
Selected Poetry of Demosthenes Agrafiotis
Translated by Angelos Sakkis and John Sakkis

6.12

Qui que tu sois, voici ton maître
Il l’est, le fût ou le doit être.

Sicilian marble

the cost in art
any way you look at it
impossibility of necessity

from generation to generation
the illusion of in-between stages

the new money
the limits treacherous
the treacherous limits

Café de Columbia

only what is beautiful
whatever pain
whatever torture
for the avoidance of retrogression

grande folie
petite folie

observation from the windows

 

 

 

 

 

 

leaves tremble in the morning breeze
the inhabitants preferred shopping

the voice from the past
taken from the way up
        from the dignified guides

demystification?
so much facility?

then a crummy English comedy is enough
for the history of the universe
            of rain
            of broken ceramics not to be written

Wallace Collection

A message from Director

“esperance”

outside temperature
distance to destination

SR 306 Athens A84

Hyperbole.

                                                               12/18/1996
                                       (London-Brussels-Zürich)