Sirens, no legend

Feeling too weak 
ten years
I didn't look at any woman
until this spring I started noticing 
eyes gazing 
from behind counters 
or battlements of husbands 
and condominiums.

When going home one night,
I heard mosquitos buzz
they heard me moaning:
What do you want from me? 

A monk's life
is more economical on blood.

2010-06-06

dangerous thing 

it is a thing that speaks 
eratic movements in the sky 
eyes and skin 
a complicated assembly of matter 
even writes poems 
a thing with a mind 
consisting of concealed frenzies 
and inclined to rule 
frenetically trying 
to rule itself 
can I trust my life to it?

1999-02-15

friend equals foe

I'm meeting with a friend
and thinking, greedily thinking: friend
having already lost myself in
thinking nothing but: friend.

Is then a friend a misfortune?
Yes.
I must, must focus
on recalling that I exist.

Opening the mailbox,
hoping to find it empty,
dismayed because it is empty,
scared that I may have been abandoned already.

2010-01-04

Der seltsame Ichgeschmack 
  
Wenn ich mich schmecke 
salzig oder gehemmt 
bin ich mir fremd 
scharf und gehetzt 
manchmal 
werden Messer gewetzt 
träume im Morgenrot 
denke, ich bin halb tot 
schmecke mich immer noch 
bin vielleicht doch 
halb lebendig

1997-10-16

Schmutziges Wort

Ich treff meinen Freund
denke gierig:
Freund
und habe mich schon verloren
vollgesogen mit:
Freund

2012

good god

not good, god isn't, 
belief isn't to be believed
just is, or isn't