The Yawpers - Bartleby the Womanizer | Audiotree Live

Like a small harmless cloud
on a calm summer afternoon
it flies over the rooftops from the horizon,
while it fills up with rain and hail;

in half an hour it soars over houses and buildings,
flooding trees and avenues nonetheless,
and the water rushes down fiercely
through the streets. And the serenity returns.

Oh Bartleby, so quietly,
you crack the life of the narrator
who is a lawyer by profession on Wall Street.

Oh Humanity, you would wish for peace in your heart,
but in human affairs, extremely
mysterious and arcane, is the reason.