ueli there is no future in this ueli
ueli the fountains will never dry out
and the air is full of sand
or at least it appears to be
the cobblestones are not old ueli
they are in fact younger than you
ueli be careful of the trams
because the trams are somehow silent
and sneak up on you while you
fall asleep sleepwalking ueli
the clock tower is hoarse and
coughs up a bird every hour
that’s about all the action you get
quiet rüedu
and change your t-shirt
people stare
they always do
they stare at nothing
or at each other rüedu
or they stare at you
when your t-shirt is dirty
or yellow or if it’s cold
and you are not wearing enough
rüedu i know it’s hard
to be appropriate
but just try a little harder
rosmarie you mustn’t put
the garbage bag outside on tuesday
tuesday is not a garbage day
they will fine you again
rosmarie tuesday is paper
twice a month rosmarie
it is not very complicated
so do you want to get fined
every wednesday or not
pesche one day i will discover my city
one day i will pesche i tell you i will
count the fountains take pictures of
bridges and put them in a catalogue
pesche i will pay every forest around it
a visit and i will bury in each of them
something that is dear to me listen pesche
i will climb every stutz and sit on
every bench in all the seasons pesche
you will be amazed how informed i
will be about the city i live in before
being too old to explore can you please
bring me another beer pesche thanks
housi turn the music down
housi think about the neighbours
housi shut the windows now
housi please tell them to leave
housi honestly your friends
housi are sorry but really
housi they are assholes
housi not knowing how to behave
housi we all run out of patience
housi you talk to the cops alone
söne when i walk the streets
the streets seem to walk over me
söne sometimes i feel so heavy
that i don’t remember i was once
any younger any smaller
any lighter anything else
söne the years are going down
the drain like the aare flows
down into the rhine and i
still scratch my head wondering
scratch my head wondering
about what it was that i forgot
söne the sky is made from lead
and i feel so tall sometimes
that i have to hold it up it is
heavy to walk these streets söne
any tool can be tired schänggu
any tool is allowed to break
to not function to die schänggu
any tool like a mobile phone
or let’s say my computer
we allow our tools to get tired
to be worn out schänggu
you know what i mean
we allow them to malfunction
and to die after some time
let’s say four years schänggu
five years tops and then every
tool dies on us schänggu there is
no real attachment to things
we want to outlive them
even real estate schänggu
is a mere tool designed
to outlive us schänggu
to be repairable to be still
there when we are not anymore
tools get tired schänggu
and we grow tired of them
they help us not to get tired
of people schänggu or
the real estate we live in
schämpu écoute-moi
schämpu mon ami
cette porte s’ouvre
dans cette direction
schämpu est-ce que
tu es soûl ou quoi
la porte n’a pas changé
mais il semble que tu ne
te souviens plus schämpu
je me fais du souci
schämpu si tu te frappes
la tête tu pourrais la
perdre ou peut-être
tu l’as déjà perdu puisque
tu ne te souviens plus
dans quelle direction
cette porte s’ouvre
mais mais schämpu
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