Harlekin

Harlekin

"[...] Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest ;
Leave thy drink and thy whore,
And keep in-a-door,
And thou shalt have more
Than two tens to a score."

[King Lear, Act I., Scene IV.]

"[...] When priests are more in word than matter;
When brewers mar their malt with water;
When nobles are their tailors' tutors;
No heretics burn'd, but wenches suitors:
When every case in law is right;
No squire in debt, nor no poor in knight;
WHen slanders do not live in tongues,
Nor cutpurses come not to throngs;
When usurers tell their gold i' the field;
And bawds and whores do churches build;
Then shall the realm of Albion
Come to great confusion:
Then comes the time, who live to see't,
That going shall be us'd with feet.
This prophecy Merlin shall make; for I live before his time."
["King Lear" Act III., Scene II. -Shakespeare]

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Und wer bringt den Clown zum lachen?

Aus dem Narrenkelch ergießen sich Traumwelten
Spaß und Tollerei suchen die
robotenden Leidgequälten

Myriaden kleine Lichtnadeln
stechen stichelnd die Maske ohne Gesicht
O-
wie traurig musstest Du gemacht werden,
damit Du nun so lustig bist?

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[Gedichtsauszug, Elvin Karda, 2022]