here are two new poems: the first one was screwed up yesterday about 2:00 AM, the second really required a day of work, but I guess you won't really notice, for it was written in German and translated. It is a bit clumsy, but it really kicks ass in the original version
don't have a name for this one yet
there’s nothing much to say
everything i wanted to tell you
before you leave, where ever you might go
i guess it doesn’t really matter now
whatever i wanted to say
there’s probably no more need to
should i wish you good luck, fare thee well?
should i wish you a nice life?
what do you think i should do now?
can you think of anything better?
anything better then just standing around
anything better then scratching my feet across the ground
drawing circles in the dust
starring holes into the air
what do you think i should do now?
should i ask you to stay?
should i ask you to come with me?
what in this world would you do?
what would you say to me?
i guess it doesn’t really matter now
if i asked you, if i begged you to come with me
you would look at me seriously
with your big glass-and-water-eyes
smile with your...
you’d put on that sad sad smile
that knowing smile
you’d just look me in the eyes
“where do you want to go now?â€ÂÂÂ
“i don’t know for sureâ€ÂÂÂ
you’d smile
you already knew
that i don’t give a fuck
what i’m gonna do
what i’m gonna be someday
as long as i can be with you
you didn’t think of that one, did you?
why should you?
it’s better for you to go now
catch your train
now
the rattling of the wheels
the calming rhythm of the tracks
the holy mantra of the street
and i know that you got to go
and how i long to come with you
how i long to go back onto the streets
away from here, once and for ever
but i stay
in the house jack kerouac built
quartet for strings and a broken heartthe soil under my feet soft and organic
moves, creeps up my legs
hip-height of fern, no passing through
sunspotted mist and flocks of birds
i follow the red road
further – inside
a storm is gathering
inside, inside
the sky is woven with dark arms
layer after layer
walls of clouds are piling
over each other
under each other
a great heavenly orgy
made of holy fury
still the sun burns
prehistoric sings onto my back
the grapefruitmoon begins to sink
behind the wall of sound
forget the swan
follow the red road further
on and on, inside, inside
frida in field of carnation
a shadow in the twilight
smoke-black sky and blood-red width
marlen on a bed of white lillies
dressed in a white summer dress
for the last time
on these darker green sunday afternoons
follow the red road further
on and on, inside, inside
sunlight in the glass-stomache of water
postcard-motives
lonley beams of sunshine break
through the washed concrete of the sky
like rash on the fields of barley
the thunder crashing
i count the seconds to the flash of lightning
but it doesn’t come
doesn’t come
doesn’t come anymore
nothing comes anymore
just go on and on
follow the red road
the whispering in the wind
the silent roar of the woods
in the epicentre everything’s silent
stone dead
out there on the fields
crucified with blackened nails
so she dies for the sins of this world
for the sins of a world that forgot how to live
the ghost of electricity howls through the bones of my face
the great soul we’ve been waiting for
the wing of the angel
the magnificent daughter of pure poetry
the only real connection
to the hevenly relams of the irreal
should this have been all?
a simulation of an attac to the apparatus
und that’s it?
was she found before we lost her?
lightning flashes out there in the distance
splits the cross a-two and sets it a-fire
but i’ve got to go on
on and on
follow the red road
inside inside
nothing is really important anymore
nothing is important enough to be remembered
nothing is important enough to be recorded
nothing is important
nothing except for us
now that she’s gone
now that our dream has crumbled to pieces
now that nothing seems to make any sense
now that the sky is getting darker
now that the connection to the sky is cut
give me your hand
follow me down the red road
follow me down the red road to the end
follow me through the night-shadows of the woods
follow me across the endless fields of barley
follow me to the shores of solitude
give me your hand
come with me
past the decaying ruins on the edge of town
past the mouldy treetrunks in the midday sun
past the valleys, lonesome and forgotten down there in the fog
past the bleeding waves of sleeping poppies
past the last shores in the salty winds
give me your hand
come with me
follow the red road
on and on, inside, inside
until we lose ourselves in the thick mist
until we float in the cold waters
until we can finally be as one