Spilled Milk

A man loses his hat as he is thrown into the crack of the red earth

Spilled Milk

A child chained to a red
ball, lifted by a bull in a suit,
is looking towards the
blue cobra while his brother pisses on the
portrait of their mother, 
which is bigger than the
shadow of the sky.

A man loses his hat as he is thrown
into the crack of the red earth besides
the green dragon with a head like a cricket
guarding a burgundy-red outline of a
woman in chains with a lock without a
key.

Death watches it all from the dark purple sky;
not particpiating, but being omnipresent,
reminding all that
soon the flames will go out and the
small beech leaves will blow away from the tombstones
since the crosses can no longer bear the memories.

Cover art: Spilled Milk by Erik Ortvad from 1936