Brian F. Taylor

Vienna Brian F. Taylor

Poetry in Vienna with Coloured Illustrations. Sigmund Freud, a dull man, started off conventionally, as dull men do, with cocaine, electrotherapy and hypnosis... Here the lunatics are free. They walk the streets confined within their minds, and peer out through the blinds and the visors of their faces.

BEETHOVEN'S APOTHEOSIS
On a hill among the Vienna Woods
overlooking Baden is a rotunda
with a green oxidised dome.

This is Beethoven's Temple;
surrounded by trees and roses,
surmounted by a car park...

Beethovan's response
to the Fall of man...
are written on the wall.

"Something higher there is not
than to approach the Godhead
and, from here, its rays
among mankind to spread."