It’s a challenge to try taking a seat unnoticed…
From then on, everything comes naturally. After a few sips
thoughts take their own direction.
Against an unfolding backdrop of distant murmurs,
things fade away, leaving just the miracle
of having been born, and gazing at the glass.

He wasn’t talking about the wine, he was talking to me
because I had studied, and smoked a pipe.
«And someone who smokes a pipe», he exclaimed with a tremor
«could never tell a lie!» I nodded.

Anacreon: Bring water, bring wine, boy, bring flowering garlands to me: with Eros I do not wish to pick a fight.