{"id":1976,"date":"2016-02-06T10:48:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T08:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2016-02-14T11:46:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T09:46:00","slug":"evening-society-matthias-politycki-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/evening-society-matthias-politycki-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Society, Matthias Politycki, Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

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EVENING SOCIETY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

This evening you appeared<\/span>
\nso precious and vulnerable<\/span>
\namongst all those well off people,<\/span>
\ncelebrating a luxurious life.<\/span><\/p>\n

You were so tiny, so frightfully finite,<\/span>
\nwhile around you, seekers of pleasure, preposterous <\/span>
\nand never satisfied, what a commotion!<\/span>
\nI feared that you would irreversibly<\/span><\/p>\n

become even smaller, ever<\/span>
\nmore transparent, if only to fade finally<\/span>
\nout of sight like a last glimmer,<\/span>
\ntill you quit silently this world<\/span>
\nsince obviously you did not fit in.<\/span>
\nAnd what would remain instead,<\/span>
\nif not the cunning talk of women,<\/span>
\n and the boisterous noise <\/span>
\nmade by men, as if nothing happened just now.<\/span><\/p>\n

MATTHIAS POLITYCKI<\/span>, Germany<\/span> (1955-)<\/span>
\nTranslation Hatto Fischer<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

ABENDGESELLSCHAFT\/\/Du sahst den ganzen Abend heute\/so kostbar und zerbrechlich aus,\/inmitten wohlgen\u00e4hten Leute,\/die feierten in Saus und Braus\/\/So schmal warst du, erschreckend endlich,\/und um dich Lebenslust, so prall\/und nimmersatt, welch ein Krawall!\/Ich hatte Angst, du w\u00fcrdest unabwendlich\/\/Nur immer schmaler werden, immer\/noch transparenter, bald verblassen\/vor meinem Aug\u2018 \/um letzten Schimmer\/und still und leis die Welt verlassen,\/in der du offensichtlich deplaziert.\/Und das gerissene Gegirre\/der Damen w\u00fcrde bleiben, das\/Drumrumgeschwirre\/der Herren, als w\u00e4r\u2018 gerade nichts passiert.<\/span><\/p>\n

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EVENING SOCIETY This evening you appeared so precious and vulnerable amongst all those well off people, celebrating a luxurious life. You were so tiny, so frightfully finite, while around you, seekers of pleasure, preposterous and never satisfied, what a commotion! I feared that you would irreversibly become even smaller, ever more transparent, if only to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}