Seven Rolls [1] Ernst Jandl [2] Translated by xia23 Between the tea of morning And the evening dishwashing He eats seven rolls – One for the morning tea One for the mid-morning snack Two for lunch With knife and fork Crumbled in coffee for snack And the last two For dinner Before dishwashing. In between Between meals He glues silver stars On the wall of the kid’s room. Sometimes he has to step on the table Sometimes that is not high enough, then he puts A chair on the table. When he has finished then climbing down He steps back down And looks at his works from afar. Seventeenth row right Eighth row right Second row right Eleventh row left Seventeenth row right Twentieth row right Thirteenth row left Second row right Third row left Tenth row left Eighteenth row left Thirteenth row right Fourth row left Second row right Seventh row left Fourteenth row left Nineteenth row right Seventh row left Third row left Thirteenth row left What will my biographer Make of it one day? [1]. p. 29. Sieben Semmeln. Kontakt mit der Zeit. Dieter Stöpfgeshoff. Max Hueber Verlag. Germany, 1995. [2]. Ernst Jandl. 8/1/1925 – 6/9/2000. A high school teacher in Vienna, language teacher, language critic, writer, radio theater writer. p. 28. ibid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Jandl |