Constipation

I am the body
of my thoughts—
unsolicited and needless,
like a colonoscopy
on a cadaver—barely settled
into the habit of tearing away
a calendar leaf
and vacillating
between Die Blendung
and I Lick My Cheese,
just to spend early morning
engrossed in speculations
about the importance of a saucer
for a brimful demitasse
of kopi luwak.


More words to ponder at maciejmodzelewski.com

A glimpse

I brought home a used copy of T.S. Eliot’s collected works and cried
like Peter Kien on his wedding night—there was something tragic
about the torn and stained dust jacket and the dirty edges, as if Faber
and Faber had printed a hewer’s handbook—only to catch a glimpse
of a snob in the mirror.