Barbara Köhler Biography

for Beat Reichlin

things which have nothing to do
with me nor wish to the people
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I call myself you for thus the distance
between us is eliminated like skin
against skin we are not
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I'm hanging on, a stranger to this land,
Caught up by love that drives me beyond the bounds
Between the skies. Where you are is your look-out.
I'm hanging on a stranger to this land.
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a game with the eyes a game with the hands
the talk of gestures tied to the net of glances
captious and resolved as if turned to answer
questions the next question to a continuation
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somebody's going & he knows he's going a way
somebody's going & she knows he's going away
some body knows that he is going away for he
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