Under Lenin's portrait
A Hapsburg orchestra.
Like fish in a tank
At dressed tables
On an open terrace:
Bureaucrats, tourists and brokers.
A trolley car shoots by and ahead:
A line of gleaming lead.
Bridges shimmer
Like wedding canopies
On the Danube.
The swing of a fiddle blesses a cup of wine.
The moon snows ash
Down on the Jewish quarter.