segunda-feira, 24 de agosto de 2026

Peter knew it all

 In Ludwigsfeld Came MiliPeter
Ohst Milibauer obst und gemüse
And who the hell am I to interfere
Through the rows and crops

Under ten meters of topsoil
The hexe's bones lies
Peter knew everything
The sun shone on his bald head

Flattering blades of sarcasm
When I look into you
With the emptiness I bring
From the edge of the world

You guess what I am doing here
A misguided direction to nostalgia
A will to shock oneself of the past
A misunderstanding of existance

The distillation of high proof apathy
I make clay figures of your nihilism Peter
One eyed clay figures
That turn hard inside the oven

Then I dance like a crow
On the freshly harvested crop
Above the witch's bones
Knowing fog's damp and manure stench

Peter as you know everything
Tell me of the ghosts swarming in the cornfields
The sprigs can hear their discontent
Peter Milibauer judge me spiritually naive

I come crawling and scrambling by dawn
You have your doctrine
Your sense of justice
I unfold a different reality

You look down at the page
Consumed with your resistance
You are kidnapped by absurdity
Your sarcasm falls on deaf ears

The corn is mute and dumb
Only the witch's bones stir
The one your descendents burned
Roads were straighted so you could give your speech

Your perception of a universe that doesn't bow to your ideals
A reality that taunts your certainty
As youth claim the world is unfair
As you Peter puritanical claim to know the world

The way things should be according to your personal doctrine
Your love of deep formality clashing with pollen
discomfort in the inevitable contamination
Reinheit und gesundheit

Gott hat dich geliebt

Unter dem Baum
zählst du deine Probleme
jedes einzeln nacheinander
suchst nach Lösungen
Aber da ist nichts
nur Verwirrung
das Leben ist kein Fluss
auch kein Berg
Es ist alles mein Schöne
der Frieden und der Krieg
tiefes Leiden mein Schatz
seelischer Schmerz meine Hübsche
Bist du blind weil Gott dich liebt
aber du siehst es nicht
und alles ist zerbrochen und vorbei
doch ich stehe dir bei
Mit seiner Kraft
lass uns tiefer gehen
Verwirrung und Leidenschaft
lass uns alles verlieren


The soul wrapped in beauty

 Wrapped inside that package you wear
I wonder if you truly are as beautiful on the inside
As you appear to be on the outside
Or is it just fancy gift paper?

Will we not find anything inside
Fingers unpeel you to get a feeling
Yet you won't open
In the shade under the tree you sweat

I come with cool water
Attempt to convince you the world is not as bad as you think
But words don't come 
can I convert silence into meaning?

Absence into presence
To see what's inside of you
Is it something sparking?
Something to accompany me

Or just some elaborate game?
for broken hearts and rainy days
Partially opened me eyes have dipped inside
Twas not something I recognized

Just a deeper mystery
I want to feel with entire being
With my heart and every thought
With the electricity of birth

With the raging static of death
I want in Like I know the mine may be viable
May have what I have for a lifetime sought
I therefore unwrap your rock

Protected from the southerly

 Protected from the southerly wind

The palm tries to survive

The worst of frosts will pass

It will stay straight and spread


The wellington train will pass it

Looking into the back garden where it grows

It's deal of fame unknown

It's audience almost always the same


But number of observers always different

It shouldn't be growing there a boy said to his mother

Trees like that only grow in the tropics

His mother looked out at the trunk and fronds


Maybe it will die this winter she thought to herself

Years later when the woman had retired

her son gone to Australia

she still saw it there in that back yard, protected from the southerly

Amenities of the plaza

There was both an icecream shop
And a cinema inside the hotel
The cinema was open
The icecream shop closed

In the open foyer
Gardens were lit up
Suddenly there seemed no reason to leave
Morning was almost gone

Midday was calling 
And it was time to return
Cross the city somewhere closer to home
But in the warm end of the morning

Tranquility stole the skin and worry
It was unnecessary or even a crime to rush
 

The pope's inheritance

 The pope's special families
congregated around the lower level of the house
Disputing how they would share in the forbidden money
How it would be practical

Each family stating how they were related to the pope
And how much money they thought they were entitled too
It was a life time of deliberation
In the the end it was distant relatives with the gift of the gab

Hotel vagabond plaza

 I couldn't get into the motel
the gate was locked and wrapped in wire
It was impossible 
Then way the wires were tied
It looked like it could be electrified
The dark short hair and fat framed glasses
Looked into me as I attempted to jiggle the door
I wanted in and clerk wanted me out
There were so many repairs to make
Why was the clerk doing those things
There was no distracting the clerk
But I waited for hours
Slipped in unnoticed
Walked over the ancient thin beige carpets
Got lost in the labrynth of corridors
Searching for a courtyard
To breathe fresh air again