WISE WORDS
Look here, sonny
I've been there
and come back
- don't take after
behind this safe
broad horizon lies
more, more than you
could ever muster
still, sonny-boy, I
won't cramp you
go on, go, there's
nothing left to mourn.
© Bart
FM Droog, 2000
© translation
Willem Groenewegen, 1996/2001
original title: wijze woorden, from Benzine, Passage
Publishing Company, Groningen, 2000