{"id":15429,"date":"2024-10-01T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=15429"},"modified":"2024-09-19T13:01:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T11:01:06","slug":"poems-by-peter-ungar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=15429","title":{"rendered":"poems by Peter Ung\u00e1r"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel is having a threesome <\/strong><\/p>\n

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After all, it’s also a novelty to ride a scooter-taxi<\/p>\n

even if there is nothing novel about the boy,<\/p>\n

maybe the esoterics are correct:<\/p>\n

there are twelve kinds of people<\/p>\n

from the Budapest to Sri Lanka,<\/p>\n

borehole depth is required to<\/p>\n

to be touched by one’s own emotions.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Because everyone is Princess Diana in their own tale,<\/p>\n

the oppressed beautiful, tragic icon,<\/p>\n

nobody longs for constructive activity,<\/p>\n

instead of fluttering,<\/p>\n

who wants to spend a lifetime in responsibility<\/p>\n

and hats of many colours,<\/p>\n

rather than with tragic suddenness<\/p>\n

next to an Arab billionaire.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Black crows standing high on a mountain are calling,<\/p>\n

that everything starts again all of a sudden,<\/p>\n

things differ in their similarity,<\/p>\n

old women are wise because of time,<\/p>\n

train tracks rumble hopefully,<\/p>\n

rising from a concrete sarcophagus<\/p>\n

philistines are crying for the messiah,<\/p>\n

self-deluding hags<\/p>\n

eat earthworms for dinner,<\/p>\n

centaurs who have lost their antlers<\/p>\n

spawn sea \u200b\u200burchins,<\/p>\n

they show that everything can exist,<\/p>\n

but yet not everything does,<\/p>\n

there are no zebras with laser guns in their heads,<\/p>\n

yet Tamil boys write bad poems<\/p>\n

yet what exists repeats itself,<\/p>\n

with perforated barriers,<\/p>\n

with dead bodies, stretchers,<\/p>\n

desks with paint stains,<\/p>\n

the same, but innumerable,<\/p>\n

in a repeating pattern.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Deodorant<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

There is no inflection point,<\/p>\n

no new material is formed,<\/p>\n

the old remains, transforms<\/p>\n

the engine of the Big Bang dies down,<\/p>\n

a human is nothing but<\/p>\n

the totality of his actions,<\/p>\n

there is nothing unknowable by others,<\/p>\n

everyone is the way they talk to the waiter,<\/p>\n

self-made photos of young adults sticking deodorants up their anuses<\/p>\n

for the purpose of seduction<\/p>\n

sent in poor resolution images<\/p>\n

to decorated cloud-spaces<\/p>\n

where floating compound-eyed wasp-body<\/p>\n

cherubs look on in anguish,<\/p>\n

with the help of lost pilgrims,<\/p>\n

old ladies retired to huts and<\/p>\n

butcher’s assistants passing chicken liver between their fingers,<\/p>\n

desire that at least<\/p>\n

let them<\/p>\n

access the secret documents,<\/p>\n

where clerks with pens for fingers<\/p>\n

scribbled over what anyone wants to know<\/p>\n

of anything.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Wednesday<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

How do we show what we know of the world,<\/p>\n

of boring house parties with stale chips<\/p>\n

and boys who\u2019s freshly cut hair showed<\/p>\n

how ridiculous it is to try this hard,<\/p>\n

of getting your thighs felt up during a lecture<\/p>\n

by someone who was but fodder for your nostalgia,<\/p>\n

a first love burning only in retrospect,<\/p>\n

of meetings, of people who enjoyed the way their voice<\/p>\n

washed away everything,<\/p>\n

like a tsunami of regurgitated of soundbites,<\/p>\n

of trying your best and failing your best,<\/p>\n

of months on end spent clinging to the one day of the week<\/p>\n

when you didn\u2019t drink,<\/p>\n

how to you make yourself worthy<\/p>\n

of ushering a new life,<\/p>\n

through sex-trafficking rings, and widows tending to empty<\/p>\n

apartments,<\/p>\n

of being a tour-guide where you also get lost,<\/p>\n

but lost in familiarity,<\/p>\n

this great testament,<\/p>\n

a gift, but undeserved,<\/p>\n

a new car before you got your licence,<\/p>\n

life changes irrevocably,<\/p>\n

when you arrive,<\/p>\n

welcome, I am here,<\/p>\n

on the bench alone eating a meat pie<\/p>\n

post-anorexic, hung over and wise for<\/p>\n

the youth that\u2019s gone now,<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been here<\/p>\n

for years.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

#<\/p>\n

Peter Ungar is a Member of the Hungarian Parliament for the Greens, has been publishing poetry in literary journals for the past years. He is 33\u00a0years old, studied in Edinburgh University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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