the destruction of the fish by water

and lightning beams / blathering oneself up to a steam / in
between one would have to twitter / to think twitter / and
lesser snakes glide past / creep / as one just
hesitates / something becomes visible / as everything shows itself/
like sounds / liquids plosives / the lips please closed! / thank
s! snort! / in / as the lake is trampled out / and is found-

ling in language / but but philosophy / 11:12 p.m.: the table
the hand the categorical knee / ughhhhh! / there's still some text
stuck to this pencil! / fragment / draws on like a stocking / scads
of clumps / or fungus / but when / hen and cockerel / sort of
plan / for understanding / green was my shawl / st. patrick my
day / and you: what side are you on? perhaps er at

first really roughly there / gone at once / you
see it as a word / possibly hear it / my god / great
slobbery wet muzzle / still dripping with syllables / charming/
quite charming / fine lines rage at experience / logic chopping / that
waits to be transformed / the writing that was a writtling/
the lyric albeit / personal disappearance in prints

and ink cakes / behind in the churls' parlours / the yobs / they
are knitting at the shirt once more / win themselves the tawdry minx /
now strike them out / stew them / for all I care diligent effecting/
of muffled accents – good! / thence fury – good! / everything is good / and
gently the loop / gently the loop and gently / gently
fine: this very evening we will be in the storehouse of arms

Ulf Stolterfoht translated by Andrew Duncan
German original © Urs Engeler Editor, Basel