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Amazing Poem

by b_b · #poetry
posted 389 days ago · shared by: 8
I came across this poem on the radio yesterday. Its really amazing who the author is, considering his other body of work.

  Remain sitting at your table and listen.
  Don’t even listen; simply wait.
  Don’t even wait.
  The world will offer itself freely to you.
  To be unmasked, it has no choice.
  It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
-Franz Kafka


by zmagma 389 days ago  ·  link
It's the opposite of "Kafkaesque."
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by b_b 389 days ago  ·  link
Yes, when the guest recited it on the radio, he asked the host to guess the author, and she guessed Rumi and a couple other guys I hadn't heard of. Kafka never would have come to mind, even if I knew he wrote some poetry.
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by ecib 388 days ago  ·  link
You forgot a line:

Remain sitting at your table and listen. Don’t even listen; simply wait. Don’t even wait. The world will offer itself freely to you. To be unmasked, it has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet. Its cold black shell clacking against the table leg.

Such a beautiful poem.

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by b_b 388 days ago  ·  link
Thanks. Didn't see that in the version I read.
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by ecib 388 days ago  ·  link
Well, I was slightly kidding :) It's what he meant to write, I swear!
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by b_b 388 days ago  ·  link
Haha. That's hilarious. You got me, because it does make that poem sound so much more Kafka!
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by ecib 388 days ago  ·  link
:D
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by alpha0 389 days ago  ·  link
Kafka?
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by b_b 389 days ago  ·  link
So I am told. That Kafka.
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by alpha0 389 days ago  ·  link
Does not compute.
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