The sun shines brightly outside but my curtains remain closed.
Fatigue speaks to me and tells me to rest my head but my mind tells me to get a job.
My heart tells me to write a novel and fear tells me I won’t make it.
Then I open my curtains and the sun beams in and I begin to roll a cigarette. As I spark it up and inhale the smoke I realise that it doesn’t matter what I do as long as I have £75 for the landlord at the end of the week.
I already have that in the bank and I did my shopping yesterday, so the truth is nothing really matters, nothing except this god damn cigarette.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
This is a great great great poem. If you like the old literature, I reckon you'd like the french existentialists - maybe Kafka too. But that's not the point. I love this poem. It says everything that needs to be said. Simply beautiful in that grip it has on our own feeling of absurdity. Glad I could read these.