#1010- at Gundel's

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at Gundel’s

 

piano beginning

though this particular jazz is yet to be invented

 

palacsinta

chocolate

 

typewriter clatter from a corner yet

but mainly coffee, iced, hot, hearsay

 

elephants, palms

 

myself?

I come from another century

from a ragged book

a long way back…

notes stray from the page

 

everything here’s hop skip and a jump

the heroes’ square

a thousand year’s conquest

museums, parks

the come and gone

 

and here must be goodbye

because he knows

one would be mad

to come back to the storm

when there’s a ticket out

 

it’s 1937

 

there’s neither here nor now

but laughter between of wars

while it lasts

 

I imagine the last day here

Béla won’t stand, won’t toast

to never seeing his son again

he won’t because he knows

 

still cheers for the heroes of bat and ball

lots of advice

 

another round

the end is near

 

and I know that they are still here

that we must be the ghosts

 

still some glories won’t fade