Tribute to everyday life
I like everyday life
Most of all, I like everyday life
The slow awakening to the familiar view
which is not quite so well known anyway
The family's at once familiar and, after the remoteness of sleep, alien faces
The morning kisses
The post's bang in the entrance
The smell of coffee
The ritual walk to the grocery store around the corner for milk, cigarettes, newspapers -
I like everyday life
Even through all its annoyances
The bus rattling outside on the street
The phone that incessantly disturbs the most beautiful, shiny still nothingness in my aquarium
The birds chirping from their cages
The old neighbor who looks by
The child that needs to be picked up from the kindergarten just as you have started
The constant shopping list in the jacket pocket
with its fixed demands for meat, potatoes, coffee and biscuits
The little fast on the local
when will everyone meet with shopping bags and wipe sweat from their foreheads -
I like everyday life
The agenda
Also the biological one
The inevitable procedures in the bath and on the toilet
The obligatory razor
The letters to be written
The rent collection
The reconciliation of the checkbook
The dishes
The realization of being out of diapers or tape -
I like everyday life
Not unlike party and colors, tent and balfaldera
It has to
with all its leftover dross
So much unsaid and approximate
weaving and hanging in the air afterwards
Like a kind of mental hangover
Only everyday morning coffee can cure -
Nice enough with parties! All room for the euphoria!
Let the thousand pearls bubble!
But what happiness afterwards to lie down
in the bed of rest and everyday life
to the familiar and yet not so familiar same view
I like everyday life
I love it
Have a full holiday where I enjoy everyday life
I really like everyday life.
Dan Turell (Danish poet)
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