Public Republic

Yassen Vassilev

Photo: kwerfeldein

the one who gives birth to himself
hardly suffers from oedipus complexes
hardly knows electra closely
he crawls as a snake out of the ground
and evil omens thrive around
magicians grow
in the headquarters of his eye
a boatman tirelessly dipping the sky
roiling stars and hatching ark
the moon opens its eyelid
and the ship sinks into the sun
spanish armada in the clouds
tristan the mad is doomed
geo milev must die
disfigured ego
somewhere in there marches
the one-eyed samuil army
somewhere in there marches
beheaded the last poet
and September Septembers the Scarabeus