I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)

Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395

I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)

Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395

I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)

Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395

I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)

Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395

I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)

Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395

I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)

Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395

I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)

Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395

I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)

Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395

I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)

Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395

I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)

Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395

I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)

Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395

I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)

Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395

I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)

Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395

I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)

Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395

I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)

Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395

I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)

Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395