(Printed in the Post Aug 7, 1964)

King Saul And I
Translated by Rachel Sauer

I

They have given him a finger;
The took the whole hand.
They have given me a hand,
I haven't taken even the small finger.
While my heart was still weightlifting
its first loves,he trained already tearing up oxen.
My pulses sound like drops from a faucet,
His - like big hammers at the site of a new building.
He always is my big brother,
I have to wear his worn clothes.

II

He went out to find his asses
and found a kingdom.
I have found them
They grin at me with yellow teeth
I don't know who to treat them.
They kick me.

III

I am tired.
My bed is my kingdom.
My sleep is my right.
My dream is my verdict.
I have hung my clothes
on a chair, for tomorrow.
He has hung his kingdom
in a golden frame of wrath
in the heaven's wall.