Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2018

January 31



since I think
that the real
is in no way real
how am I to believe
that dreams are dreams

Jacques Roubaud and Saigyō Hōshi

da ich denke
dass das Wirkliche
in nichts wirklich ist
wie sollte ich da glauben
dass die Träume Träume sind

Dienstag, 30. Januar 2018

January 30


last night i had the following dream: 

i was sitting in my home office and, after feeling to have an inspiration to do a poem, took a piece of paper and a pen and started writing. i commenced with the letter “n”, thinking about how to carry on, but the inspiration stopped. i was waiting a couple of minutes. nothing happened. i waited another couple of minutes. no result. so i took the piece of paper and put it in the refrigerator to keep the already written "n" fresh. hours or even days later, i thought, when inspiration would come back, i would take the paper out of the fridge and carry on writing. at that point the dream ended.

i woke up at 6 this morning, and while preparing for the day and the lunch to come at noon i went to the fridge to take out the frozen food and defrost it in advance. as i opened the fridge a piece of paper next to the frozen food attracted my attention. i immediately grabbed it to see if something was written on it ... and yes ... it was. i did not believe my eyes, when I discovered the letter “n” written on it. and, even more surprising, a small pile of frozen ice behind it. for a few seconds i was shocked, but then i realized the truth: my fridge, as a matter of fact, had finished the word in his very own unique way.  what a clever fridge i have. and what a nice story this is, isn’t it?

Montag, 29. Januar 2018

January 29

"Ask me what I have in my head. I have nothing. All my brain goes into my fingers."
(Grégoire Michonze in "The Henry Miller Odyssey", 1969)