Danilo Kis - Out of tune piano

through an avenue of black woods passed

a single nun

riding a bicycle


a policeman is crossing himself

in front of the cathedral


a single cathedral made out of lace


an old woman offering love

for only thirty franc

plus a room


in one shop on the corner

they're selling warm pyjamas

and chewing gum

for dogs


a drunken sailor

in the street's embrace


in one cabaret they're serving

cocoa and sour liquer


a tall man from Congo

who looks like a cangaroo

is publicly dying

of nostalgia


the eyes of a young waitress

in cabaret Italy

look like the eyes of Modigliani's 

women


a drunken German remembers

a Polish girl named Marija Kaczynska 

who he kissed

in 1943

with one hand

on his gun

the other on her left boob


one out of tune 

piano

reminds me of the harbor of salvation

in Paris

where I cried one evening

while watching a love couple

hugging




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