angel 

My angel's smile 
grows hard 
as she says:
'You're guilty 
of not being made 
according to specifications, 
I replace you 
with any of my dreams.'

1999-03-17

Politics on a small scale

She grabs and cuts and loves to slash 
with glee and rash, 
acts most offended when apprehended. 
Whoever stops her is subliminally called 
a criminal.
Withdrawing tactically threatening to resign 
she's showering a deceptive weakening 
hope 
on some 
while feeding fear of loss in everyone,
as she is sorely needed: a perpetual guard 
against the evil-minded unknown 
hordes. 

2008-10-21

Flucht vom Fest

links eine leere Seite
jetzt fallen Schatten über das Papier
daraus schwallt 
unerfüllt 
eine Lebensgeschichte
ich schlage meine Beine 
links- und rechtsherum übereinander
ich verstehe ihn gut
aber
die Stille war mir willkommener
ich gehe

			Juni 97

Schlechtes Gedicht

Großmama im Ehebett 
hat sich gern an mir gerieben
es dann mit Großvater getrieben
das steht nicht geschrieben
nur dass sie mich so lieben

2013-06-15

The bright appraisers

On a hot day four men came into my house,
jeering at my new carpet in the hall, chucklingly
trampling up the rickety staircase, disdainfully 
walking over the great room, ticking off  "high 
ceilings which we don't need", boredly staring 
around the attic (later in their report declaring 
the entirely unexamined roofing beyond repair), 
not even bothering to enter my pretty room;
good-humoredly stepping out the front door, 
explaining they would, graciously, not subtract 
demolition cost from plot value because
that would leave me with a negative number, 
responding to my dumbfounded query whether 
they had, then, found the whole structure to be 
unsound with, amidst laughter, the hilarious 
statement that "we can't look into the walls!"

6. July / 1. November 2009

I'm not angry

I am angry
But I must not
Bad boy, they tell me
Always overreacting
Only because 
They touch me everywhere
I must not be angry
I'm not
Only later

2006-10-14