Panos in specialist pharmacology
As well as a PhD in chemical substances
Yiannis, nee in ‘69
Nightly endorses the axioms of rock
Though, nowadays, a faithful of Madonna, Radiohead and Bjork
Bjork imitates the whale song
The experts of my time deem this metaphysical
My friends stopped falling in love five years ago/ They claim that love is a cannibalization of tears/ They also speak of/ Subzero temperatures in a lover’s arms
Μy friends/ My best friends/ Marvel that I still fall in love/ And though I’ve put in an order for a marble bed in order to be totally cool/ Nevertheless while lying / Forgive me, I mean leaning/ Against walls, planks, pillars and cars/ I forever find myself before the perennial miracle:
Of my soul rattling
My heart bleeding
My mind leaving me
Insofar as it isn’t the other/ —Who in an attempt to describe the pencil of poetry/ might well not find the word for how the mouth got to the feet—
But I rather
Egocentrically erotic
Rising and kneeling
Stretching and bending
Going in and pulling out
Kissing and being kissed
With ardent devotion and skill
And I grunt when I come
Because for me the whale is a distant voice
But dogs even in my time
Still make love in publicYiannis Antiochou, Curriculum Vitae
Translated from Greek by K. Matsoukas
photo Guillaume Gilbert
