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Robert Anker

HOMESICK FOR THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME

As we walk along the road
I’d gone beyond Abba, but Abba caught up
with me it was a young day the day before you came
it was the kind of day when everyone looks at you and takes shape
and: did the curtains in the doorway move there was no wind
something sank buckling aside a flood a flare of light
in the light a singing colouring of colours to themselves
it was the day before you came I breakfasted as usual
I think and I read the paper at work I suspect
probably also lunched and walked back to the tram
the key in the lock no sense of living without aim
but all that advent into nothing the day before you came.

Heimwee naar de dag voordat jij kwam

Heimwee naar de dag voordat jij kwam

Ik was Abba al voorbij maar Abba haalde mij
in het was een jonge dag de dag voordat jij kwam
het was zo’n dag dat iedereen je aankijkt en gestalte neemt
en: bewogen de gordijnen in de deur er was geen wind
knikkend zakte iets opzij een vloed een flakkering van licht
in het licht een zingend kleuren van de kleuren naar zichzelf
het was de dag voordat jij kwam ik heb gewoon ontbeten
denk ik en ik las de krant vermoed ik op mijn werk
zo zal ik ook geluncht en weer teruggelopen naar de tram
de sleutel in het slot no sense of living without aim
maar al die opkomst in het niets de dag voordat jij kwam.
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HOMESICK FOR THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME

As we walk along the road
I’d gone beyond Abba, but Abba caught up
with me it was a young day the day before you came
it was the kind of day when everyone looks at you and takes shape
and: did the curtains in the doorway move there was no wind
something sank buckling aside a flood a flare of light
in the light a singing colouring of colours to themselves
it was the day before you came I breakfasted as usual
I think and I read the paper at work I suspect
probably also lunched and walked back to the tram
the key in the lock no sense of living without aim
but all that advent into nothing the day before you came.

HOMESICK FOR THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME

As we walk along the road
I’d gone beyond Abba, but Abba caught up
with me it was a young day the day before you came
it was the kind of day when everyone looks at you and takes shape
and: did the curtains in the doorway move there was no wind
something sank buckling aside a flood a flare of light
in the light a singing colouring of colours to themselves
it was the day before you came I breakfasted as usual
I think and I read the paper at work I suspect
probably also lunched and walked back to the tram
the key in the lock no sense of living without aim
but all that advent into nothing the day before you came.
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