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
