And I enter the bastion of the members
of parliament built and planned according
to the dimensions of the temple from Jerusalem
from the Bible a vast hall like a huge cave.
Here the beings move simultaneously covering
the thousand-year-old distance from the crocodile
to the gorilla and every view goes into a decline
every sound falls silent for a split second as behind
a big screen you get airplane ear, your ears are
ringing ‒ the male and female individuals
that come one after another must and bear
a despicable thing just as they bear a disability
at peak time they all become crocodiles and they
woo each other hitting each other with the tail
from behind under the knee and they laugh
thievishly. “Let’s take revenge on them, you stupid!”
the speaker speaks with an uvular R, “let’s rejoice,
the money is ours, the food, the soft flesh are ours.
All those violent whom we didn’t disfigure let them
rot in jail! There is the same amount of reproofs
that I administer to myself and that poison
my existence. And yet we must make them
thousands and thousands of hard laws we must
impose thousands and thousands of taxes on them
we must break the napes of their bulls’ necks!...”
And he puffs away at his cigar, as tall as a rain maker.
“What profundity and what brilliance!” she licks him
with her tongue a whore who says that in the evening
she went to bed healthy and in the morning
she woke up dead. “You are some humorists,
circus performers!” howls a smaller, swarthier
crocodile and then they begin to babble all at once
and those 600 monsters in hubbub full of unhappiness
they increase the pain in the air, they increase the pain
in the world ‒ they are all the same colour grey
without shades ‒ she increases by seven seconds
per second with every step of ant and the nature
of the pain is a triple, cubic nature and the condition
of a martyr, you carnivorous, voracious, insatiable
crocodile is an infernal pain and the function
of reptile is doubly painful and the wealth grabbed
hurts us three times, annihilates us ‒ never have these
vipers dreamed of human humans, they always put
suffering in their wallet, in their glass, in their food
in their butcher’s shop, in the electronic tablet
of their children, and they appear and weep like
some poor mommies, never with so much painful
gentleness in the voice never with such a proximate
assault of the hunger on the throat, never have they
played the part of a macaque getting out of the skin
of crocodile ‒ and thus nor was death more lethal
than death even the furniture, the kitchen cupboards,
in their drawer they didn’t find so much ground pain
so much hunger and the crocodiles from the parliament
start the game again this time morphed by the pain
into chameleons. And what eyes they have! And they
still see the crucified bread, the bloody flesh
and the chameleons are sad as far as the crop.