Poem: ‘Kaspar Hauser’
Laurence Lerner, 15 May 1980
All that long time there was the place I was, All that long same, the dark and constant same. I came to being and it bit my eyes.
I want to be a rider like my father. A soldier was my father was a horseman. I want to be a rider and I want
Out of that same he carried me up stairs, Out of that dark and then I stood to lean; The soft ground stood and hit me till I fell.
When it was hunger time...