Gedicht

Ruth Padel

Side by side

FALLING

FALLING

FALLING

This isn’t happening

Play it down
Dress it in Levis or a babygro

Buy it a hamburger
Buy it a drink

Put it out with the cat
Make a credit card arrangement
With the taxidermist on Upper Street

Book it a package deal
Where icicles go

For their holiday in spring
This isn’t happening

And it’s doing it so fast.

© 1998, Ruth Padel
From: Rembrandt Would Have Loved You
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London

Ruth Padel

Ruth Padel

(Verenigd Koninkrijk, 1947)

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FALLING

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THE EYES

THE PHOENIX

THE FOREST, THE CORRUPT OFFICIAL AND A BOWL OF PENIS SOUP

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FALLING

This isn’t happening

Play it down
Dress it in Levis or a babygro

Buy it a hamburger
Buy it a drink

Put it out with the cat
Make a credit card arrangement
With the taxidermist on Upper Street

Book it a package deal
Where icicles go

For their holiday in spring
This isn’t happening

And it’s doing it so fast.

From: Rembrandt Would Have Loved You

FALLING

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