With paws stuck upward, lies Berlin.
That silly idiot – the moon
Bridled with cables, broken in,
Smiles, goon!
The close-cropped trees along the streets
Don’t know if to unfold.
But here, indoors, narcissi sweet.
Begin to smile, all gold,
Like babes in hungry sleep.
The crocodiles sleep in the zoo,
Apes, lions, donkeys too.
Rich women in their villas sleep –
They’ve nothing else to do.
And the time is almost two.
The trams and cars have stopped their dance,
Their dawn-to-dusk quadrille,
And one after another prance
To their caves and stand still.
In places lamps already wink,
While higher crawls the moon
Between cathedral towers – just think,
It’s stuck, the old baboon!
It grins still broader, goofy-face,
It sighs and blows and then through space
Warm streams of gentle air begin
To flow o’er slumbering Berlin.
It tried to get into the zoo,
The moon, but then it saw
Rich women take their clothes off: “Oo-oo!”
The fool blushed pink with awe,
And then behind the towers hid
Its face, flat as a saucepan-lid.
(Kazys Binkis)
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