The Basel Killings by Hansjörg Schneider

Author:Hansjörg Schneider
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Published: 2021-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

On Sunday evening he took a taxi across Dreirosenbrücke to the Klingental restaurant. It took its name from a convent that had been established close by in the Middle Ages. It was one of the nicest places in Basel, an inn like the ones you got round Les Halles in Paris fifty years ago, with whores for the simple man and warm food until the early hours. Now, early in the evening, it was only half full: two taxi drivers, an Italian family with whiny children, weary couples. Sitting beside the way through to the bar, where the prostitution business would begin at ten, were two old men Hunkeler knew. They were Jürg Federspiel and Werner Lutz and both were writers; he’d hung around the streets with them when they were all younger. He joined them and said,

Poetry is something

that’s there beside us

goes on in parks

in public lavatories

on the trains

at stations of course

seldom at airports.

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