acrylic paint and paper on glass 12cm x 9cm 2022

From J D Salinger A Perfect Day for Bananafish 1948 and the ‘famous german poet’ referred to in the story: Rainer Maria Rilke’s Suicide Song 1852 to Mad Men the 2007 AMC TV Series

Did you read little black sambo? Do you like wax?

“The Suicide’s Song” Rainer Maria Rilke 1852

All right, just a moment.
That they always take the rope away from me
and cut it.
Lately I’ve been so prepared,
and there was already a little bit of eternity
in my guts.

Hold me the spoon here,
this spoon-fed life.
No, I want to and I don’t want to anymore,
let me give in, throw up.

I know that life is whole and good,
and that the world is like a full dish,
but for me it doesn’t get into my blood,
it just goes straight up to my head.

For others it’s nourishment, me it just makes sick;
Understand, that one can despise it.
For at least a thousand years
I’ll have to fast.

Ah adrift in the air exposed on the cliffs of my heart