A Rough Guide to Vienna

Fifteen things not to miss: the Opera,
museums, parks, the rich, «Kaffeehäuser»,
"The Third Man", tram 1, tram 2 (for the view),
Freud escaping, his sisters not, hanged Jews
(gold efigies) on nineteenth century
watch chains, shopkeepers finding graffiti
promising a holiday in Dachau,
a cartoon of Jews eating grass like cows
on the Prater, women scrubbing the streets
being urinated on by SS
(this considered a treat by onlookers),
Bergasse - birthplace of the subconscious:
"At a party, I looked down (in the dream)
and saw brown fur where my heart should have been".

by Helen FARISH, in "POETRY REVIEW", Volume 103:2, Summer 2013

(photo taken from Internet; edited by Armando TABORDA)

(1st edition 2013; 2nd edition, 2018)