Name: Ameisen
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Description: Lyrics: Tamar Radzyner

Ameisen

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Lyrics: Tamar Radzyner

lyrics

Ants
by Tamar Radzyner (translation by Joe & Gay Giordano)

Tiny, black, nimble
restlessly stirring
driven by alien, perfect instinct
that's how they arrive.
They haven't done a thing to me
no damage got inflicted
our lines don't intersect
alien worlds, uncaring galaxies
somehow remarkable
disgusting.

Thus, I grab my can of Zyklon
spraying death
and down there
the great killing commences
The tiny black bodies twitch,
curl up, shrink
Panic, chaos, flight without escape,
heroic hauling of corpses,
screams on inaudible wavelengths
Suffering on unattainable wavelengths—

Across lifeless bodies
I stride
a thousand times magnified
by the death in my hand
gentle and wise
in slight disgust
I, the
ant god.