VADEMECUM - A SURVIVAL KIT

I would hold my eyes between my teeth

like a killer his knife

while he is tying up his victim.

In this way I can walk

almost safe

among the fittest;

and no one would know

I am but a Schöne Seele,




and no one would tell me:

watch out.

Who would bother with a cubist

harlequin?




©Elena Malec, California 1997