A Few Things That Make Life Worth Living

Fluchtversuch - Trying to Escape 33 x 39 cm Acryl on wooden board

A FEW THINGS THAT MAKE LIFE WORTH LIVING

A fugue multiplying its diversions,

changing its mind all the time but never forgetting

what it wants to sing. The pictures of which it cannot

be said where form stops and color begins.

The sexy woman suggesting with a glance

that she might easily

eat us for breakfast lunch and dinner

followed by espresso, a warm brandy

and—some clichés should not be resisted—a French cigarette.

Please check:

a) platinum light glancing off the splendid palms of Mallorca,

b) a plate of tapas, white wine, beneath an old plane tree,

c) a lingering, lazy kiss at dusk,

d) all of the above.

Let’s do it again.

Only different this time: viewing the Brancacci Chapel

while slightly high; a crowd free morning  

spent with certain mosaics in Athens; a hot dog heaped  

with sauerkraut, eaten in Central Park, yes, that’s it,

only this time followed by a schnapps chaser

which is known in some parts as “ burping the baby.”

The speechless stare that becometh blind oration.

Die Grosse Fuge - Beethoven
NDR Sinfonie-Orchester
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor