Farvel

Still, lengthening evenings,

well-suited to the vapor-blanket

that's setting in today,

would vainly attempt seduction.

Be careful.

They might, at last,

in some final graspings,

seize you slightly

and then let go.

boogie

I think in heaven, first

I'd just want to know

if there ever was a soul

I had to sell at all?

Were it true,

I'd think, well,

how much you think,

at most, it'd cost?

And if false,

I'd say, "That's swell,

but someone, somewhere,

sure as hell got ripped off!"

Sol i København

A minstrel of the gray morning,

the accordion player in the park

sang a little too softly to hear

clearly from the street. I'd been

wandering from the path past

the crane and school and at last

confronted by a light I'd not seen

for what seemed like a year

stuck in the halfhearted dark,

I couldn't keep myself from joining.

Small

With the great, unyielding pain
in my neighbor (friends and foes, alike)
I feel smallest when I yawn, saying
"Ain't I a man?"

Well, Ain't ya?