Easy listening

Glamorous, harmonious, soulless music
Is like a puzzle
For the unfit minds.

A little bit too nostalgic,
It keeps playing
While you are combing your hair
And rushing to the minibus.

First lectures
Remind of fawns and dryads
In a huge aula.

You keep writing poems
And still get an 'A'
In history of arts.

In this aula
You leave your neurons,
Your stem cells,
Your hypotheses,
Thoughts, feelings...

You watch C-graders
Skip their lectures,
You are tempted to meet them,

And when they are finally invited
To your 20th birthday 2 years later,
You see how fragile youth is -
With all sorts of wisdom
Under black sails of the 80s postpunk hits.

You graduate
And you keep listening
To songs of the past,

Ten years later
You conceal silver in your hair
And you recognize uni department reunion folks

Near the cafe.

You smile
And you feel like Odysseus after a long journey -
Weary and inquisitive.

The whole world is a narrative,
The whole life is a journey,
And our heartbeat is a game.

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