Josef K. is the 'hero' of Franz Kafka's novel "The Process", where the processes gradually grind him to dust to finally end by his being taken away, whereafter nothing more is known about the fate of Josef K....
Josef K. - after his being taken away:
I am wasted, dead and buried.
I am all used up and spent, kicked down the graveyard
into the black hole of oblivion that awaits us all,
like some old skeleton without identity,
a skull of emptiness and nonsense,
worn out, burnt out, sorted out,
refused a hearing by all terminals,
forgotten formally, buried alive
without a gravestone or a ceremony,
for my love is gone, and I am left alone
a vacuum of loneliness,
a drifting satellite astray in space
without a purpose, like a lost cause in the universe,
doomed miserably just to wander
as a zombie or a ghost through darkness,
sentenced to existence in a limbo of despair,
for there is nothing left for me
but to outlive and survive myself.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2006-08-27 at 13:08
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78. Josef K.
Josef K. - after his being taken away:
I am wasted, dead and buried.
I am all used up and spent, kicked down the graveyard
into the black hole of oblivion that awaits us all,
like some old skeleton without identity,
a skull of emptiness and nonsense,
worn out, burnt out, sorted out,
refused a hearing by all terminals,
forgotten formally, buried alive
without a gravestone or a ceremony,
for my love is gone, and I am left alone
a vacuum of loneliness,
a drifting satellite astray in space
without a purpose, like a lost cause in the universe,
doomed miserably just to wander
as a zombie or a ghost through darkness,
sentenced to existence in a limbo of despair,
for there is nothing left for me
but to outlive and survive myself.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
Read 911 times
Written on 2006-08-27 at 13:08
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