A trivial post

I'm working on some bigger things in the background, so this is frankly a stopgap. For the last few nights, in the last exhausted minutes before sleep, I've been reading two or three poems by Lars Gustafsson, who has become a great favourite of mine. So here he is.

Trivial pieces of knowledge

Olive oil is an outstanding rust remover.

Individual events have no probability.
They are points.

Therefore
Even I lack probability

The dead don't know
that they ever existed.

Time can't have started with the universe.
Time can't have a beginning.

Because a beginning is always an event.

It's difficult for horses to sleep
if they are left out alone in the night.

Horses guard each other's sleep.

Persons who have a disturbed relationship with their mothers
become poets.

Persons who have a disturbed relationship with their fathers
become boring.

(Source: https://m.poemhunter.com/poem/trivial-pieces-of-knowledge/. Presumably a John Irons translation.)