Fraud of Vienna

 

Aus Wien aus Osterreich, phallic symbols recede

To the horizon this LSD day

Mit Fraud of Vienna in the Cafe Horizontal

In old Wien mit mein madchen

In uniform, naturlich, "Are you on Urlaub

Or here to stay in the city

Of the Founding Fathers of psychoanalysis,

You leper, my friend, my brother," she said

Mit Steffi, Vergissmeinicht

Staying in the Hotel Mozart, in the stiff armchair.

"I am an Umlautophobe

Germanophile and minor poet:

Holderlin with a chamber pot

Barking mad with syphillis

Or third-rate manic-depression:

Disguised as a minor European aristocrat,"

Said she to me -

With reference to his

Constant changing of underclothes -

"I am a schizophrenic, my dear"

I said, to the American

Heiress, Chicago, Semite,

Viennese, "and Dr. Completefraud

Has agreed to treat me

With the brush handle method

Corrected and tested

In this city, possible ECT

And genital grip,"

Imploding with laughter

The sun exploded in a shiver

Mit Tina und Steffi

Reclining in the Cafe Horizontal:

Shards of the afternoon.