#2419 -- in the salt mine

 

2419

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16.viii.26

in the salt mine

 

once was sea

 

now everything –

floor, wall, ceiling

salt

 

with a pickaxe, with a hammer

 

gnomes overnight

up to old tricks

 

so many steps

and rails and carts

 

whole forest

holding it up

 

all done with tallow lamps

 

blinkered beasts raise water

 

doors and halls

all carved

 

a statue of the king in the mountain

 

of course a dragon

that’s for luck

 

it’s the miracle we’re here

 

knock and you’re led off

 

rope ladders

slippery poles

 

a good ghost

looks after

 

a pillar thereof

no looking back

 

and when the dark comes

and the dark will come

 

you could get lost down here