IMPROVISATION #183
RETURNING DAY DREAM AT
THE BERLINER ENSEMBLE

Putting on brown
or red shirts
in reversal
    at the hotel
 rehearsal
 while skirting with a smile
    of state control
  with you on trial
the inspector of history
 and the inspector out of Hell
who was actually a mole
acting for the other side
brought his new bartered bride
 with his one short story
and  home orchestra
from Smetana
saying you lost your soul
  reacting here on the stage
so many years ago
in a Jungian language
when the egg replaced
  the young ego and id
  and the bearded beggar
now aged after twenty
 centuries disguised as an angel
of light on the street
returned as it were
from the Hague and Prague
with a more wise and learned Kafka
hidden now in a no go zone
 hears the accordion player
delay her flirtation and moan
   for war's strife and peace
after a hundred years
with the littered peasants
increased and scatter
at the time of Luther
when life mattered
to another human mate
     from a Haman ruled era
  directed by Brecht
committing  a summary
in crimes of theft
   by permitting  every state of mind
    that Freud expected these times
       in  his psyche prophecy
hearing this  night of era rites
in 1913 with Diaghilev
 studying the difficult
                   Stravinsky's  ballet
"La sagra della Primavera:
in the audience clairvoyance
 a crazy shady cult follower
 of Mdm. Blavatsky
including of the one blind shaman
who annoyed you under the table
with his seeing eye wonder dog
to fool the wandering masses
colluding together
they gather with a disc
as a matter of ghosts
appear in their vests
taking notes
 from Brest-Litovsk
pass by with their fables
  and quotes
to sign a treaty in the smog
years after sitting here
listening to the shared laughter
of diplomats and fat cats
over the unwelcome mats
and to spy vicariously
over the highly discovered chairs
in 1939
and to stop by
witnessing a variety
of  a hopeless liaison
     of false piety
named  little Napolean
from the French foreign legion
on their way back to Pious
from the army of the Papacy
at the pope's  holy see
all way from Rome
 to the country of Germany
 reviewing Mussolini, then catching
   the red eye
of  Von Ribbentrop and  Molotov
  we watch from their dressing room
boasting of their biased conquests
  in time to get out of his gloom
demons now  making a bed of love
drop down at a Paris cafe's
 blog window
  with a Roualt clown
teased with a map on the wall
showing Gog and Magog
as shadows seize  at his room
shatter us all.