The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

Valeska Gert


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inside bodies rooted at the hip
slightest movement, shudder, shiver
body-stutter, warmed probed flesh
slightest movement from inside
maybe shudder or shiver from inside
maybe warmed probed flesh f&m }


Was nicht geht, das geht nicht mehr,
mir ist so sonderbar zumut.
Wenn das wirklich alles war,
dann ist das Leben nicht sehr gut.
Seht, mein Fleisch verfaulet schon,
viel zu vieler Liebe Lohn.
Fruh du Ende ist der Spass,
fruh sind wir der Wurmer Frass.

  (Ich bin eine Hexe, Kaleidoskop meines Lebens)

What does not work, that's no longer
I am curious as reasonable.
If this really was everything,
Then life is not very good.
You see, my meat verfaulet know,
Far too many love wage.
Breakfast is you end the fun,
We are the early worms Frass.

We are the early worms' muck, swill, food.
An early end is a joke.
See, my flesh already decays
It's so strange to me, moody
For too many love's a wage

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Salutations from the Mumien cellar

Dann raffe ich die giftgrune Schleppe, schluchze ein paar Takte aus der
Schonen Blauen Donau und verschwinde.

  (Ich bin eine Hexe, Kaleidoskop meines Lebens)

Then I understand the giftgrune train, schluchze a few bars of the Blue
Danube and Scania disappear.

Then I grabbed the green poison bag, sobbed a few bars

a severe bout of depression


only one sensor moves and that is one inside the body
everything else is still as if a silent snow falls on the skin
'the' points to nothing and that is annihilation
i have a nail in my head
when i hit the nail in my head i have a nail in my head
when i hit the nail in my head i have a nail in my head
when i hit the nail in my head i have a nail in my head
when i hit the nail i have a nail
when i hit the nail i have a nail
i will be dead these several months what can happen
now at this very moment dizziness overwhelms me
snow falls inside the body and everything is still
only the sound of someone hammering in the distance