Friday, March 12, 2010

Alfred Brendel



Demons
scarcely distinguishable from gods
play in the furrows of our souls
like instrumentalists
painfully but with panache.
When they squeeze us
we whine
like dogs craving to get out
to bark at the dark.
Dog-like
we'd love to bite them
our tormentors
only to find ourselves
biting our own tongues.

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