At The End Of The Journey
you step into apeland
you step up to a green apish eye
you remove necklaces of thought strip off the rags of travel planscome closer to the green apish eye
come and join the ape princes
all apes are princes you too will be a princebow down to the green apish eye
come on to the branches of sawdust bananas
you too will be a banana all apes are bananassmile to the green apish eye
you will have a tail of long curly love
all princes have the tail you will swing by lovecome come or stay or else make a bow
give a wave a wink a laugh or else cry
you are always a prince swinging among princesor you can die as well and not be a dead banana
nor a skeleton of love nor a dead tail
the green apish eye won’t gaze on you won’t be a prince among princesyou are a grain of sand or a drop of water you are watched
by your eye heard by a grain or a drop
when you touch it on your way to the great sea
to the pupil of darkness to the eye of the stars
Translated by Michael Scammell
Page(s) 264
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