The factual fairytale Poem by Hendrik Rost

Out of fairytales we step with debts.
New ones, complicating lots of things.
Are they facts that tolerate no redress
and no opposition? In my dream I heard
the shallow breath my breast brought forth.
In life and in love that's bared
imbecilic blood isn't rare - new inklings
of meaning are rubbed off the face in the morning.
One knows the nature of things.
Connotations are almost smothered
under superficial morals: a liquid curdles
only when it's blood, everything else races
towards gravity. After the seductions
and soft sheets we dream of facts.

Translated by Hans-Christian Oeser and Gabriel Rosenstock