A Thousand Kisses Deep (London 2009)

A masterpiece from a true artist:



"You came to me this morning
And you handled me like meat
Youd have to be a man to know
How good that feels, how sweet

My mirror twin, my next of kin
Id know you in my sleep
And who but you would take me in
A thousand kisses deep

I loved you when you opened
Like a lily to the heat
You see Im just another snowman
Standing in the rain and sleet

Who loved you with his frozen love
His secondhand physique
With all he is and all he was
A thousand kisses deep

I know you had to lie to me
I know you had to cheat
To pose all hot and high
Behind the veils of sheer deceit

Our perfect porn aristocrat
So elegant and cheap
Im old but Im still into that
A thousand kisses deep

Im good at love, Im good at hate
Its in between I freeze
Been working out but its too late
(Its been too late for years)

But you look good, you really do
They love you on the street
If you were here Id kneel for you
A thousand kisses deep


The autumn moved across your skin
Got something in my eye
A light that doesnt need to live
And doesnt need to die

A riddle in the book of love
Obscure and obsolete
And witnessed here in time and blood
A thousand kisses deep

But Im still working with the wine
Still dancing cheek to cheek
The band is playing Auld Lang Syne
But the heart will not retreat

I ran with Diz, I sang with Ray
I never had their sweet
But once or twice they let me play
A thousand kisses deep

I loved you when you opened
Like a lily to the heat
You see Im just another snowman
Standing in the rain and sleet

Who loved you with his frozen love
His secondhand physique
With all he is and all he was
A thousand kisses deep

But you dont need to hear me now
And every word I speak
It counts against me anyhow
A thousand kisses deep"

Pe lângă plopii fără soţ...

"Pe lângă plopii fără soţ
Adesea am trecut;
Mă cunoşteau vecinii toţi -
Tu nu m-ai cunoscut.

La geamul tău ce strălucea
Privii atât de des;
O lume toată-nţelegea -
Tu nu m-ai înţeles.

De câte ori am aşteptat
O şoaptă de răspuns!
O zi din viaţă să-mi fi dat,
O zi mi-era de-ajuns;

O oră să fi fost amici,
Să ne iubim cu dor,
S-ascult de glasul gurii mici
O oră, şi să mor.

Dându-mi din ochiul tău senin
O rază dinadins,
În calea timpilor ce vin
O stea s-ar fi aprins;

Ai fi trăit în veci de veci
Şi rânduri de vieţi,
Cu ale tale braţe reci
Înmărmureai măreţ,

Un chip de-a pururi adorat
Cum nu mai au perechi
Acele zâne ce străbat
Din timpurile vechi.

Căci te iubeam cu ochi păgâni
Şi plini de suferinţi,
Ce mi-i lăsară din bătrâni
Părinţii din părinţi.

Azi nici măcar îmi pare rău
Că trec cu mult mai rar,
Că cu tristeţe capul tău
Se-ntoarce în zadar,

Căci azi le semeni tuturor
La umblet şi la port,
Şi te privesc nepăsător
C-un rece ochi de mort.

Tu trebuia să te cuprinzi
De acel farmec sfânt
Şi noaptea candelă s-aprinzi
Iubirii pe pământ."

Mihai Eminescu
1883, 28 August / 9 Septembrie

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Nichita

Se izbucnise piatra în praf şi pulberi fine,
Iar cerul se tăiase în două înspre jos
Şi soarele din infinit spre infinime
Răgea umbros.
Salut! Murim!
În timpul ăsta scurt
Când eu te strig, când tu mă strigi
Şi încă ne mai răsucim
Atâta-ţi spun, atâta-ţi zic
Salut! Murim!

(Nichita Stanescu)

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My planet

So here I stand, among those which do not move. If you do not move, you can never notice the chains. But why would anyone move, why would anyone even raise their heads when the ground is such a lively show?

Amidst all of those grey ghosts, I feel...pity and repugnance at the same time. The thick brown dust in the air, along with the terrible wind rule all on this planet. We are all slaves of the chaos and obey any order it gives, be it real or just imagined by our paranoic minds. By their paranoic minds. I refuse to give in, I refuse to lie down whenever the wind starts blowing, like everyone else does.

They kept telling me that I could only survive the storm by bowing down. Now they have ceased to do that. They have all went away. There is not a single soul in sight, not a single heart whose beat to warm my ear.

I feel ...alone.