a constant in a sea of ​​variables

It’s strange: when someone special dies and there is a gravesite, you feel like that place becomes a constant in a sea of variables for you – forever and ever.

I’m afraid that’s not right because at least in a municipal cemetery, souls are only temporary tenants. As an official relative, after 20-30 years you will be asked whether you want to extend the rental agreement for the one-room apartment in the name of the deceased. On the other hand, as an ex-boyfriend, one day you come to the constant and can no longer find it. I then looked through old photos and noted the names on the graves around Sandra’s, searched for them and found the recently dug-up site and the few grave goods that were still preserved. My hope for the gravestone is that Sandra’s mother chose it for her grave since she was recently buried in the same cemetery as her daughter. If that’s the case, then Sandra and Rita are living together again… Unfortunately, the cemetery administration was closed and I couldn’t find the location of Rita’s grave. But I have another 20-30 years.

mind work martin blum Portrait Sandra Grabstelle mit Grabstein
mind work martin blum Portrait Sandra Grabstelle in Auflösung
mind work martin blum Portrait Sandra
mind work martin blum Portrait Sandra Geburt, Wiederauferstehung, Tod
mind work martin blum Portrait Sandra Amar Libertar

Long Distance II by Tony Harrison

Though my mother was already two years dead Dad kept her slippers warming by the gas,

put hot water bottles on her side of the bed and still went to renew her transport pass.

You couldn’t just drop in. You had to phone.

He’d put you off an hour to give him time to clear away her things

and look alone as though his still raw love were such a crime.

He couldn’t risk my blight of disbelief though sure

that very soon he’d hear her key scrape in the rusted lock and end his grief.

He knew she’d just popped out to get the tea.

I believe life ends with death, and that is all.

You haven’t both gone shopping, just the same,

in my new black leather phone book there’s your name

and the disconnected number I still call.

Obwohl meine Mutter schon zwei Jahre tot war, hielt Papa ihre Pantoffeln am Gasofen warm,

stellte Wärmflaschen neben das Bett und ging noch, um ihre Fahrkarte zu erneuern.

Man konnte nicht einfach vorbeikommen. Man musste anrufen.

Er würde dich um eine Stunde vertrösten, um Zeit zu gewinnen, ihre Sachen wegzuräumen

und allein auszusehen, als wäre seine immer noch große Liebe so ein Verbrechen.

Er konnte meinen Unglauben nicht riskieren, obwohl er sich sicher war,

dass er sehr bald ihren Schlüssel in dem verrosteten Schloss kratzen hören

und sein Kummer beendet würde.

Er wusste, dass sie gerade herausgegange war, um den Tee zu holen.

Ich glaube, das Leben endet mit dem Tod, und das ist alles.

Ihr seid beide nicht einkaufen gegangen, trotzdem,

in meinem neuen schwarzen Ledertelefonbuch steht euer Name

und die abgeschaltete Nummer, die ich noch anrufe.

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