Cold

Cold on the loft
wish I was a furry one
but I am only me
sneezing
yet I must write this
to feel alive and well
alas I am me
wheezing
The difference between
the temperatures
makes me cold
sqeezing
the heat out: a portable
radiator next to
my tired feet
breezing

Rape in Congo

Rape as a mean to war
systematically
among other places: in Congo
emblematically
makes me throw up.
Radically.

What the hell are
basically
the men thinking?
rationally?

To destroy the future
deliberately
of a country is awful
diabolically.

To what end will
scrupulously
the power hungry go
analytically
to demean women.

Thanks to one man
analytically
Denis Mukwege
scrupulously
a doctor in a true word
angelically
human and an altruist
deliberately
many Congolese women
rationally
survive the wounds
basically
live like pariahs
radically
but with self-respect
emblematically
in spite of having
systematically
their vaginas raped
with everything
violently.

Une ruelle

Une ruelle
aupres d'une maison
porte bonheur
car c'est la raison
d'y rencontrer
les gens du quartier
Elle vaut mieux
d'un bijou du Cartier.

Rules to live by

Beware of the sneaking coldness
in your bones
act boldly to counter iciness
in your soul
warm the body with exercise
in your bed
laugh until you collapse
in your mind
invite friends over
in your home
cook a meal for more than one
in your kitchen
and then you will know
the heat of living

A flower

Kids are like flowers
cactuses
crocruses
dahlias
magnolias
roses
and all other kinds
Daughter of mine
you are all combined.

Une tete de cheval

Sculpteur amie modele
une tete d'un cheval
les narines de l'animal
doivent se montrer fideles.
En taquinant son createur
elle m'envoie par mms
un photos - horreur
mon portable recoit que les sms
mais la technologie moderne
nous sauve vivement
t'en va au l'ordi
tu verras brievement
sur la site de la companie
la photo envoye du nez
dont voila le bec.

Pensee sur un film

Hier soir on a vu
un film Le Bus 768
sur les assauts sexuels
subis par les fenmes
de maintes hommes egyptiens

et tout qu'on a pu
dire sur le soixante-huit
les attitudes criminelles
sont des dilemmes
une femme - propre-a-rien

Les temps ont evalu
les societes beuites
hereusement - virtuelles
un jour sans les maremmes
les hommes deviendront humains.

A non-prayer

A friend is fighting
cancer is the cause
think good thoughts
her way
any way
all the way

A friend is fighting
cancer is the cause
think and think again
her way
any way
all the way

A friend is fighting
cancer is the cause
good sound thoughts
her way
any way
all the way.

for Barbara

A jolly post

If I could be creative
and do want I want
I would write stories
instead of just rant
paint funny pictures
without too much pain
then my life would be
different - I'm saying.
If I could be a bird
or a little bitty fly
I would go with the flow
although once in a while
go against the stream
and follow my mind
instead of placating
to the others - a rhyme.
So end my morning post
from the attic in the house
I gotta get scooting
just like a little mouse.

Confrererie d'histoire

Les confrereries ici
sont des hommes et femmes
carnevalesques
mais
ils croyent encore
de leurs metiers vitaux
pittoresques
et en se rendant la
ou il y a des repas
bucoliresques+
ils donnent ldes couleurs
avec leurs costumes
picaresques
et sans eux les villages
n'auront pas le don
de nos histoires
arabesques.

Flue

The flue
the snot
the cough
the night with no sleep
due to
the flue
the snot
the cough

The flue
the snot
the cough
the days in a daze
due to
the flue
the snot
the cough

Le macon

Attendant mon macon
est nervrant
car c'est lui
qui va faire l'ouverture
de ma maison ancienne.

Le macon est vital
car c'est lui
qui me rendra la lumiere
de l'etages partout
sans faire tomber les murs.

Le macon viendras-tu
pourvu que
tu me faites
un devis raisonable
pour le boulot serieux.

My IT man

My IT man is far away
so when I need help
he will do it per se
one click - yelp
My IT man is so near
and his help is dear!

Nom de noms

Maxine ou Franmax
des prenoms des amis
patgeo ou geopat
encore d'origami
poueva ou evapo
incroyable noms
yvedon ou donyve
jouets des sons.

End of all wars

From Flanders fields
to Verdun
From Sudeten Land
to Berlin
From Korean Peninsular
to Phom Penh
From Tonkin Gulf
to Saigon ....

Too many wars
and that is only in the
last century...

last conflict of man
only
when man becomes extinct!

(Thoughts on 11/11/1918-2012)

Painting

Beams are calling
Paints hauling
from pot to ceiling
my hand miauling!

Le someil

Une nuit encore blanche
sans que je la voulais
maintenant la fatique commence
au lieu de me sentir parfait
ce jour sans borne et plein
je n'en peux plus rien
Mon cerveau est cuit
je crais une autre nuit.

Une aventure de voiture

Ma charmante brave copine
a une nouvelle voiture
c'est une citroen sublime
un soir roulant d'aventure
le bruit de la machine clopine
la courroie au premier dictature
un quart d'heure j'incrimine
sans hesitation comme vomissure:
qu'elle a rate la transmission
et d'ailleurs les phares longs
etait pour elle l'evasion
de trouver le correct bouton
finalement elle arretait la pulsion
le car n'etait plus au ping-pong.

Life giver?

Under the eaves I sit like a bat
thinking of what to do next
I could clean the house
( it needs it done - tomorrow)
I could paint the last beam
but then the light is getting too dark
(you cannot say that either)
so without further ado
this day is like hell
good intentions but
the sun looked so tempting
and the sea sparkled at the beach
that there was no competition
- the lifegiver won - again.

Sunshine

You have been missed
after two dark stark days
your rays makes me smile

coldness and dampness
you eradicate them
at least for today

and that is all that matters.