And so will I wonder...?

I lived, but then in living I was feeble in life and

always knew that they would bury me here in the end,

that year piles upon year, clod on clod, stone on stone,

that the body swells and in the cool, maggot-

infested darkness, the naked bone will shiver.

That above, scuttling time is rummaging through my poems

and that I will sink deeper into the ground.

All this I knew. But tell me, the work- did that live on?

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(Translated by Gina Gönczi, 2004)