The Next Chapter
So let me tell you now how it was before I came to your shop. I got up early. The sun was already shining. It poured in through the street-side windows of my room and lit up my bedclothes, my table, the chairs, the walls, and my entirely barenaked body. Because I sleep naked and sometimes I live naked. Everyone’s naked under their clothing. I couldn’t get up. So I raised my arm, my leg, my head. A man raises his head. Millions of stars, thousands of galaxies, planets, and here: a man raises his head. Head of head, light of light, true man of true man. Setting in motion all the limbs I possess, my sweet Olanda, took me a good half hour. Maybe more. May the motion of my limbs never cease, all my wondrous life long.
At last, I sat up on my bed in my room — which is in a par
