Testi Blume - Einstürzende Neubauten, Anita Lane

Blume

Chrysantemum\nFor you I am a chrysantemum\nSupernova, urgent star\nAstera Compositae\nFor you I’ll be a dandelion\na thousand flowerettes in the sky\nOr just a drop in the ocean\nIf you know my name\ndon’t speak it out\nit holds a power — as before\nLiliacea\nA lily of the valley\na flower of saron\nHelianthus annus\nFor you I even be a sunflower\nDo you hear my enlightening laughter?\nanother reason to cut off an ear\nYou know my name, do you not?\ndon’t say it For it’s a sacred, immovable — frozen\nRosa, Anemone et Nymphea alba\nI’ll even be a waterlily,\na marygold, a rose\nor a little thistle\nEuphorbia\na blue dahlia, a black tulip\nthat’s where opinions differ\nthe scholars disagree\nMy name, should you know it remains unspeakable\nand it’s spoken — malediction