Döden 1986

Southern Norrland mountain areas & inland
Clear-cuts & stone cairns new land
Small farmers & barley & sheep
Half comes up from what you sow
The lambs were irradiated this year

The assortment at county road 81 at the gas station
Below the steep hill
Is the same as in Stockholm & at Böda
The dead Swedes of the headlines equally dead
Hell of a week's events
Onion chips & magazines with women's breasts
All those fresh breasts

High above 81: An twinkles the village
Like a diamond in the sky
The road lighting along the Ovik mountains
In the dim TV evening
Sparkles like Manhattan's Fifth Avenue
With the jewelry store Tiffany's
The widower can't escape
Drunk behind drawn kitchen curtains
Chugging fermented dandelion wine
Roaring aimlessly & voiceless
Give back Stella's breasts
Give back her hair
She would have turned forty-six this year

Soon the young ewes will lamb
Stella came & helped them nurse

The wretched old woman bought a granary
The widower is her grandson
Newlywed with his Stella 67
Stella who is newly buried now
The old woman grinds oh my oh my
Oh my goodness & ha ha yes yes
What did I say say say

You can rent a video box at the gas station
Sudden Impact & The Evil Dead
Streetfighter & China Blue
Bloodsimple & Death Wish one & two
Here is the post office & grocery store, no NK

Where people walk in high heels with an account
At a central station it's more crowded
But who measures that the sparsely populated areas have longer
Between person & person than the southern roads
It's sparse & quickly thinning in humanity

The wretched old woman sits where she sat by the stove
Her feet colder than the inland ice
The wood stove is red-hot
Life only mortality

Another jumbo jet that has crashed!
Olof Palme has been murdered!
Sjösala was burned down to the ground!
And on P1 they moved the moment of devotion!
Just one day a moment in pieces
One thing is certain the accident that happened & happens
In an obituary someone is always home

The widower by the TV set
Can't muster the strength to warm the food
Can't be bothered to turn the barley flour porridge
Can't find his way to the pigsty
The widower gets snowed into the widower's house
Sky-high attack
The snowdrift reflects the light
Chalk white
Cross-section
& scalpel-sharp Stella gone
Empty & bloodless his aorta
Stella you, light of my heart
Stella born in this house
Died in intensive care
Despite the new laser knife
The whole parish white as the snow
Death
Frosty tear drop from the vein
The cold shiver of the headwind

The wretched old woman's coffee & funeral cake
Marzipan princess breasts rose nipples
Big bright wheat field
Arguing about the crayfish crayfish
The corns on the thigh bone neck
The cancer

The young person that she passed away
A stroke of luck that it was quick

The widower wants to scream
No!
She didn't pass away
Will never come back soon
She didn't fall asleep
Will never wake up
Knew she would die
Plenty of time to say goodbye

Teach me, you forest, to wither happily
Once like the yellow leaves of autumn

Sang the young, cheerful priest
Then the hymn 365
Stella had sung it
When she was bustling in the kitchen
Preserving, feeding the pig
Had sung it for the lambs
Sorrow & joy they walk together

In hell that they do it
Sorrow runs ahead
& drags joy strangled in a cord

The wretched old woman obsesses over emigration famine
The terrible fates of the Swedish people
A bankruptcy took the family's forest
The carpenter got a deformed child that died
Hydrocephalus spina bifida
Misery in gangs & flocks
Drug rehab center in Rätansbyn they fight
Infecting us so we get AIDS!

The boy long ago wants to herd in the forest
It was the lynx that took him
He was carried home on a birch branch
Torn curly hair
Remembers it like it was yesterday
Yesterday

The widower wants to get back at someone
Chainsaw the woman in the western granary
Split her like a log, chip her down in the woodshed
Because she has whole breasts
As if such a massacre would be some comfort
As if one wrong would erase another wrong
Give back Stella whole

Help him to be he doesn't know how to do it
First life with someone then it dies

Wing beats over the nearby village
The widower wants to explode in his core
Millisievert becquerel
What's on TV1 tonight?
The picture on channel 2 is just static
She was born in this house

Stella help me out of this
Stella tell me where you are
Distant you lure my sight
I'm stuck in this village

Well help him then someone
Milk the cows, tend to the barn
Hold on & shear the sheep
Go down through all the years
Help him to feed the washing machine
& to clean the pigsty
Louse off the ugly barn cat
Warm up with a tub of rainbow water
Wash off the NK suit
Toss away the Chloe perfume
Donate some of Stella's clothes
Wonder what the weather will be

Must groom the mare shoe it
Brush his teeth according to
The rubbing method