to silence your tongue. (adapted from a translation by Hakim Bey alias Peter Lamborn Wilson)
A New Rule As a rule, drunks fall on each other, quarrelling, violent, making a scene. The Lover is even worse than the drunkard! Let me tell you what Love is: to descend into a Goldmine! And what is the Gold you find ? The Lover is King above all kings, unafraid of death, disdaining a crown. The holy man has a Pearl invisible beneath his rags, so why should he go begging from door to door? Last night the moon came along, drunk and dropping clothes in the street. “Get up,” I told my heart, “Give the soul a glass of wine. The moment has come to join the nightingale in the garden, to sip honey with the soul-parrot.” I have fallen – my heart shattered where else but in your path ? And I broke your bowl, my amazing mentor, because I was out of my head. Don’t let me be harmed, hold my hand! A new rule, a new law has been born: Break all the glasses and beat up the glassblower! (based on a translation by Kabir Helminski, in Love is a Stranger, Threshold Books, 1993)