Jürgen Rooste (born July 31, 1979 in Tallinn) has worked as a journalist, a teacher, and the director of the Estonian Institute in Finland. In addition to close to a dozen poetry collections, he has published a number of joint books with friends.
Furthermore, he has composed textbooks and dictionaries, organized poetry evenings and festivals since 1998, and runs the Cabaret Interruptus poetry-theater. Rooste has won Estonia's annual award for poetry on two occasions.
i'm a singing skeleton
i'm the ghastly-ghostly
master of the full-moon night
...
will you love me until the edge of eternity
and after
we have passed the edge of eternity and have
moved on for a few hours
...
Downtown Tallinn is beautiful. Over there, by Estonia Theater and the
old bank (where independence was proclaimed) and the secondary school.
Just one shopping center stretches like a bomb crater across the road.
...
Love is like the Higgs boson.
Many believe it exists.
There are some, who claim they have
seen or measured it.
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