© Gabriel Levicky

Praha/Prague

January 25, 1990

GABRIEL ARIEL LEVICKY

PRAHA AGAIN, AGAIN PRAGUE

Milk and honey

under the skin

of these girls

directly out of

the textbook of legends.

But the air is rotten.

And the politics

which really shrink people

is rotten.

And they are.

But the slap in the face

is new,

in this city

sinking in its fat

like a melting ice cream cone.

And coffee in the most beautiful

art-nouveau room of the world

is rotten too.

People here obviously

want to move to another planet,

but history caught up with them again,

and they have to take the subway

to the inventor

of their tragedy

7 days a week.