In the fake village

where no one lives, the garbage --


truck comes every week.

We are the winners,

all we don't know is listed --


in our manual.

The businesses closed,

quiet in the streets, and yet --


crowded in the parks.

A girl passed by, the sound I heard
was fast and flashy like a bird's
A shining flower in her hair
a new song dancing in the air

Perhaps her very heart could twine
on me and then unite with mine
And coming in my depths of night
her glance would put me in the light!

But too outdated is my head...
Farewell, sweet ray that shines on me
your perfume, youth, the harmony...
This happiness had to pass. It fled!

Small rings in her ears

are festive, and big earrings --


even more festive.

I wish to begin

the day without reserve, like --


the skylark, cheerful.

I can't fly, but I

dare to fall, for a moment --


I've got perspective.

What does my father

smell like inside, how much worse --


than his stinking breath?

A black word is quick;

it strikes irrevocably --


and right in the heart.

The speech is followed

by silent applause, the hands --


just raise the glasses.

She watches her child,

and follows it in her mind --


as guardian angel.

Seducing someone

to want to go to hell, that --


is really subtle.

In our character,

our convictions make imprints --


of unfree conduct.

Barefoot, my mother

squats next to me in the grass --


very intimate.

I'm fully present,

my body, all my senses --


here, in this garden.

After making love

I do feel just enough cold --


to feel that I'm strong.

I thank him and he

says politely: 'No problem' --


That's not: 'With pleasure' ?

Emperors on their

pedestals look over me --


into an old time.

Duties fascinate

me, but when they're done I know --


they don't mean too much.

Here is the hotspot:

a meander of people --


queueing for a shot.

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The Welcome signposts

lead me deep into the maze --


At Shot I am out.

Strangers are safer,

to them I can openly --


tell all my worries.

I dare to get into bed with you
Your big mouth is too small
for the world, your heart too big

for me, here I am
Well, tell, then I'll dream
with you, about you

in a purple cloak
the skin of innocence and power
Very discreetly, very discreetly

you take revenge
on anyone who does not get into action
and just lets everything happen

You issue wise orders
that camouflage your agenda
Much trouble for nothing

for though you loathe them
they are not another species
they are like you

only not angry enough
to be able to choose
what is important

That is the seed
the seed of your anger
Everyone's passivity

Spring, time to go out!

Although winter is nicer:


not all those people!

I walk twenty steps, five feet
down into the darkness
of buried secrets
on the outskirts of the oasis

I walk twenty steps, five feet
in the excavation
next to the shallow ditch
which was once a pond

Discovered from the sky
vaguely marked in the sand
by odd gauge values
of the substrate

Back into the light
where a man sits
on the roots of an old tree
looking at me

Compelling, he beckons me
pointing to his water bottle
and I realise
that he knows the answers

to the questions I shall ask
when he is no longer there

Step aside! Don't speak

of what you don't understand --


This road is our road!

Cooking eggs, I watch

the bubbles in the water --


to dance around in.

Far away - the world,

high - the walls around the yard --


pale - the morning light.

Life is beautiful,

that's why people are longing --


for La Merica.

Thin sounds, far away,

from the small strawberry fields --


inside the teapot.

The dinner table

is stylishly set, spotless --


Sorry, except me.

Are dissertations

anti-science? Given that --


they're unreadable?

Nowhere can it be

safe anymore, look: adults --


too can cry a lot!

I slept like a bean

in the pod of my car, in --


my cradle, my egg.

The storm sweeps away

everything, there is nothing --


just a shoreless sea.

People look at her,

and confused they keep looking --


And she.. she loves me!

Bright flashes of light,

the rigging and the heather --


screaming the loudest.

We pile up power

and build the tallest tower --


Then it collapses.

In empty places in the city
I stop for a while to see
if something is there anyway

Because attention must
be lead away from what you want
to keep unseen, like

God being unknowable, dressed
in the universe and hidden
under the invisibility cloak

of a religion, that gaudy
robe of customs
and holy words

Just like voids
they show nothing, just the nothing
if that existed

And yet I pay attention
whether something is noticeable
of the secret of everything

Perfect images,

captured, just for a moment --


Already passed by.

After my education is the party
Everyone at table, now
we are going into the world
solve the problems
There's nothing better

We can do it
We are entitled to it
Everything is possible
Who does what?
Who has a plan?

.....We didn't agree
.....and that was against us
.....The deal is off
.....No happiness for all people
.....Mission Failed

.....A hard lesson
.....to be more or all the less
.....realistic
.....or both, if you can be young
.....and old at the same time

I came for you, not for the wood
that you make me touch, polished
with a gold-jointed split here and there --

the simplicity-beauty
of the song of time on the lute
of life, your life

You show me the snaps
and stretch the evening, you stretch yourself
to the goodnight in the hallway

In the guest bed, I caress the wood
of your heart, so much do I want
to make it burn

not to sleep alone, not patiently
wait, but start the future
which you are now dreaming

great, not patiently wait
until you want me, I want to love you
at first sight

Travelling isn't fun,

I struggle to go, hoping --


to arrive quickly.

The radio waves

spin around me a wide web --


of nothing but space.

I ring the door with

my handbell and I'm welcome --


because it's mý bell.

She bends over, her buttocks on show
while she puts her shoes away
She never looks through the window

I never can make contact with her
across the street and expose
me and my desire

It is hot, it's blowing so hot
through the city that I would leave
space in between us, caress her

only lightly, not lie against her
and first put out the light
or close the curtains, with a *****

by the window, happy to lie
awake from the heat, next to her
close to her body

That light over there,

the outer side of the black --


that is the future.

People only change

when someone else forces them --


They can't change themselves.

The music can't go

bad, so everyone enjoys --


beating his heart out.

Alone. Between lonely hearts
understanding misunderstood others
with attention, my password
the master key in my genes

Kicking I already did it
not yet capable of anything else
as a baby, as a grownup
no one should unlearn it

no one should claim it
when he feels hurt
by hurt people, wronged
by the world

of sham adults
Come, I'm coming, just swallow
your reproaches
for a kiss

Finished, desk empty,

there's nothing on it at all --


just my lower arms.