Victorine's Saddest Eyes
iii. Elegy for Euphorion
"All things do change: All things do love: All things are locked in ate:
Whoever fully thinks his through/holds the key to Man's estate"*
He left her a the railway station, gave her the puppy and a few coins.
She's reading Quirinus Kuhlmann's "Himmlische Libes-Kuess" for the
thousandth time. The face-less child, the chubby hand gripping
the iron fence, watches his body dissipate into smoke.
* Love Kiss XLI translated by Richard Sieburth
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He left her a the railway station.
gave her the puppy.
and a few coins.
She's reading Quirinus Kuhlmann's "Himmlische Libes-Kuess" for the
thousandth time the face-less child, the chubby hand gripping
the iron fence watches his body dissipate into smoke.
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