(Hintergrund)
Immer so völlig allein unterwegs, also ohne Referenzen, dabei trotzdem fühlen wie ein zu voller Teller Suppe, der von A nach B transportiert wird. Was machen denn die Freunde alle, 150 Namen im Handy, na die machen Projekte inzwischen, aber i got lost schon während ihren Promotionen, trotzdem mag ich mein Hirn inzwischen. Manchmal glaube ich, das kommt alles wieder, der Hunger, die neuen Texte, das schnelle Weiterhüpfen über Verweise, diese umfassende Neugierde. Grade nur noch Zitat alles. Wegen der Kinder? Nee, ich war ja zuerst da, und mein Gedächtnis ist kein gutes, ich behalte nicht mal die Sätze, nur die Erinnerung dadran.
There we were in the vaulted tunnel running,
You in your going-away coat speeding ahead
And me, me then like a fleet god gaining
Upon you before you turned to a reed
Or some new white flower japped with crimson
As the coat flapped wild and button after button
Sprang off and fell in a trail
Between the Underground and the Albert Hall.
Honeymooning, moonlighting, late for the Proms,
Our echoes die in that corridor and now
I come as Hansel came on the moonlit stones
Retracing the path back, lifting the buttons
To end up in a draughty lamplit station
After the trains have gone, the wet track
Bared and tensed as I am, all attention
For your step following and damned if I look back.
(Heaney/The Underground)
There we were in the vaulted tunnel running,
You in your going-away coat speeding ahead
And me, me then like a fleet god gaining
Upon you before you turned to a reed
Or some new white flower japped with crimson
As the coat flapped wild and button after button
Sprang off and fell in a trail
Between the Underground and the Albert Hall.
Honeymooning, moonlighting, late for the Proms,
Our echoes die in that corridor and now
I come as Hansel came on the moonlit stones
Retracing the path back, lifting the buttons
To end up in a draughty lamplit station
After the trains have gone, the wet track
Bared and tensed as I am, all attention
For your step following and damned if I look back.
(Heaney/The Underground)