Die Löschung

Nicht, dass ich nichts gesagt hätte, 
aber du hast es gelöscht, 
hast es mit deiner Macht -
weggemacht! 
Als ob ich NICHTS gesagt hätte.

Natürlich ist das kein alltäglicher Vorgang,
und angesichts deiner Verstimmung
gebietet schon die Logik, dass mein Reden
absolut beleidigend gewesen sein muss! Genau 
das sagst du ja auch, das
glauben dir alle, und
welch herrliche Arbeit du leistest,
sagen sie alle, es klingt,
als wollten sie dich 
wieder genädig stimmen.

Mich hast du still gemacht.

		2007-09

physical production 
 
I need to piss 
before I die 
a world of bliss 
is a honeypie 
fast devoured 
in spite of crime 
quickly lost 
with help of time 
 
I need to shit 
before I hit 
the bottom 
of that awful pit 
where souls are said 
to sell their fire 
man is not man 
he is a mire 
 
I need to cry 
before I lie 
to teddybears 
and a dragonfly 
I cannot help 
a bumblebee 
I am a catastrophe 
for free

	Jan. 1997

The old must be excused

Once there was a fat old fool
laughing at his tiny tool.
The tool was smarter yet than he,
the giant was too dumb to see,
too dumb to hear a little voice 
that called: don't tread on me,
I am alive, I have a brain,
it's wrong of you to cause me pain.

The fool heard not, kept treading on
or took delight in seeming deaf
and smiling broadly shouted,
- not even so much louder than the little voice -
a mock-misunderstanding jolly, gay old man,
he shouted: "Tread on you? - I will!"
And so he did - and laughed.

2008-05-04

Pricked 

When I went into the video store
and the girl said two fifty, I said: 
But I've already paid!
Yes, for yesterday.
But, do you mean 
that one has to return it on the same day?
Yes, she said, and added that her colleague told me of course.
He told me nothing!
Yes, he told me of course.
But you weren't even there!
I had started to shout, but
she knew her colleague, he told me of course.
He told me nothing! And a speck of foam
from my lips
settled on her bust, the shelves reeled
and my hand came 
- while with strange clarity 
I saw a great horn 
ramming her body through -
down on the counter
with a magnificent slap.
You needn't spit at me.
It wasn't intentional!,
I bellowed.

2003-12