PESHAWAR

even one is too much
two are too many
there is a school shooting
one, two, three, four...

a thousand holes in the walls
of seven submachine guns
a thousand holes in bodies
the heat disappears from them

only a moment later
he sleeps in a white sheet
bodies cut like grass
the candles are burning, they have burned out

two would be plenty
but one hundred and thirty?
that cannot be understood
that cannot be explained in any way

is this what god preaches?
I can do that...
is this what allah preaches?
I can...

in December in Peshawar
the sky closed its eyes
it turned its back
in December in Peshawar

 

PIANO

all his life
on the waves of the ocean
his home is a ship

he never had a father
just an old piano
his mother is music

sheet music instead of maps
and people's stories
that's what he does for a living

from shore to shore
he is afraid to come out
his limit is fear

that how he lost his stepfather
how he lost his dancer
how he lost a friend
that as he lost, he lost everyone

when he comes out on land
he will lose even the last certainty
that those horizons will kill him

first step, second step, third step
it can't go any further, it can't be done any further
the war is over, the ship has served its time
he sits on dynamite, sits, plays and sings

IT CANNOT BE LIGHTED

rays of light
from another world
where there is no time
where there is only bad time
the moon repels them
fall on the retina
it freezes us

also the king of the blind
opens the eye
he looks pale
looks from the ditch
before he started
the end has come
he understands, he already understood

from a ball of snakes
people will rise
geography upside down
history before them
history as fast as…
brother brother, man to man
so are newspapers

god no longer lives here
if he was, he forgot
only the smell of hell
sulfur smell
temporary residence
at another address
in an evil universe

and for god's sake...
there is no god...
what would stop it…

LAST CHANCE

life itself is evil
a world full of pain
add music
just warms up and plays
on the right string
from the constellation Orion
a hundred light years
hear only one tone…

that tone is an option
that tone is peace

the worst loneliness in the world
in a painful life
music, you play and play
our minor one
to the last desperado
to the blue planet
destroyed and lost
at the very edge of space

that tone is peace
the last option

SEVEN DEADLY

beyond the seven mountains
seven sins
delicious and deadly
beyond the seventh river

a scene from a horror movie
in a dirty city
beauty in the hands of the Beast
in a bulletproof vest

in the door of the inn
insane look
in it a death sentence
but he doesn't play god

"I am full of evil and emptiness
and I have to get it out of me
and everything is a manifestation of something"

what???
the guys called out three times
what???
black eyes cried
no!!!
black eyes went to sleep
why???
riddle, puzzle

he didn't want to hurt them
neither flies nor poppy seeds
but what was he supposed to do?
when he could not do otherwise?

six balls of silver
each for one sin
only the last one remains
charges and kills

where was there was
stream of blood, seven bodies
and in those bodies lead
he left for the eternal hunting grounds

remember:
you don't know what, but everything
is a manifestation of something