the error is not
the computer
reflecting in spec-
tacles and a half
bitten  but like
the elder in proverb
this topsy turvy
always world..

the moon is far
and what
would one
want

there..?
anyway day
and night
night and

days slip
by
without
your smile

without your
eyes
anyways
little blue
tape

in abarren
landscapes
dead seas
ah, tranquility
but pity..

last year in the uk
a million millionaires
were created
not very poetic but
an interesting statistic
is it true?
i don´t know
but it cast my mind
back
to when i was a curious
child and a book
entitled something like
odd facts and did you know
that it would take
so many weeks to
count a million
and then i thought of
the moon and how far away
and then if one stacked a million coins
the base would melt
and then i thought in a
bit of a mood swing but quite
characteristic
i wonder how many suicides
there were..

if reversed
the devil tell
the truth
in echo´s

well..
time though
we can be sure
here-

is our knell
straight
live
and direct..

ii


the poor girl´s heart was broken
so was mine
so was every ones´..

anyone marry s..
i paid and we went in
the street
we bid adieu..

he back to his leaflets
and me on to denmark
i stocked up on metaxa
only the best for her

five star- i liked
the barrel..
in copenhagen
people were friendly

her name was ingar
i remembered
her boyfriend moved out
and i moved in

he gave me a sympathetic
look
that is where i first heard
tom waits

thank you ingar
but i just could not
**** all the time
yo had the warmest smile..

even my lost heart
felt the sun
when you smiled
from your ancient

reserves
so generous
burns me still
seared me till

dying
ha
bless
you..

i)

song has gone
for ever
(but not for good)
something

severed-
a head held
(with out-cost)..
the barbarian

is at the gate
and he asks
why?
and we answer

we don´t know
but someone
shall pay..

ii)

freedom
sing
we
e!

in our heart
is eternal
melody
come!?

wild things
in wacky
times
and

syncopation
if need be
join hands
dance

and dance
dance
o
.!

i was just saying to
to tommy the kat
over the morning
egg-the mystical bene-
fits of sharing-
two souls
touching and all that-
but-
but for his part
he ate with appetite
(even through
ketchup)
licking with gusto
his extravagant
whiskers
and then like a
sad too much
departed
for the hills
to relish waiting
for the ****..

i

writing has become such a pleasure
i never imagined
a passage to reality or the end
of a dream

it can be anything spontaneous
or a thought lost-like that-
carefully structured
to the stars

it can be bad or even good
love or war
an air guitar
a telephone calls-

ii

hello,are you mad at
me?
(i am always mad at her..

tension is our meat and
potatoes-
what could it be...

relationships are difficult
redemption and guilt
guilt and redemption..

will we ever be free..)
i smoked the last of the grass
you were saving-i found it

in your pocket..
i am sorry-in crime and punishment
r. slaughters two old ladies

but his punishment is not a few years
in siberia but his base transgression of morality..
his guilt the depths of hell..

through the love of sonja and confession
there is redemption-not to mention
god..

iii

in love there is forgivness-
but what of the dead..
where is justice?

we are all sorry
in the end
found it..?

so word is out
hear the criers
shout!

hear ye!
hear ye!
500 duccats!

to he
who can
rid hamelyn

of it´s
infestation-
500 duccats!

(no more rats..!)
hear ye!!?
that´s me!

thought the pied
piper
in passing

on an errand
pete to his friends
what a princely

sum
said he to his
mum

i´m away to
hamelyn
lickety split!

but i shall return
rich!?
she packed

his sandwiches
while he dressed-
black hat

white spats
a salt and pepper
suit

a magical flute!
Jess his newt
on his shoulder

water..
with out
a doubt..

off to hamelyn
for fame
and fortune..

if reversed
(fie-a mild
blasphemy..)

or you
and i
we go

back!
you and
i

happy or
sad
(mostly)

jesus,
if
not then

for then
lost
or best

dead-
much said
thus

wink to
a blind
man

a moment
in
the past

dude
gravitas
gratitude

a rainbow
of then
now

and if-
harmony
a kiss

a hand
if
reversed

would be
the same
so..