peripathetic

Freedom of dominion
To say
"Here
freedom rules"
is always
a mistake
or even
a lie:

Freedom
does not rule

[Erich Fried, Vorübungen für Wunder - Freiheit herrscht nicht - Preliminary Exercises for Miracles - Freedom does not rule - trans. (c) 1999 Marc Beiser, Peter Doughty, Lena Nievers]

This is part of a translation of 'Preliminary Exercises for Miracles' which was completed for me as a birthday gift by Marc and Lena, who then asked me to collaborate with them on a reworking of their manuscript. This manuscript is, to my knowledge, the only complete English translation in existence of Fried's final volume of poetry.