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2015: believe in your own magic

Bergkinder Agenda 2015 - Die Wunderkammer

Video: created by & starring the 'wunder'-ful Georg Vogel, EinSATZleiter, www.Notfallgermanist.ch

Bergkinder Agenda Illustrations: by Silke De Vivo who makes the magical stories come alive with her artworks, www.silkedevivo.com

Get drunk. Stay drunk.

poetryMagdalena RungaldierComment

One of the best poems ever, written by Charles Baudelaire. To read and re-read and re-read over and over and over again.

Get Drunk

Always be drunk.
That's it!
The great imperative!
In order not to feel
Time's horrid fardel
bruise your shoulders,
grinding you into the earth,
Get drunk and stay that way.
On what?
On  wine, poetry, virtue, whatever.
But get drunk.
And if you sometimes happen to wake up
on the porches of a palace,
in the green grass of a ditch,
in the dismal loneliness of your own room,
your drunkenness gone or disappearing,
ask the wind,
the wave,
the star,
the bird,
the clock,
ask everything that flees,
everything that groans
or rolls
or sings,
everything that speaks,
ask what time it is;
and the wind,
the wave,
the star,
the bird,
the clock
will answer you:
"Time to get drunk!
Don't be martyred slaves of Time,
Get drunk!
Stay drunk!
On wine, virtue, poetry, whatever!"