JEALOUSY 2003
The cells of the human body are constantly renewing themselves…
1.
If there is no one
to be jealous of,
she recollects
my first kiss
and is jealous
of her former lips
2.
but she forgets:
in front of her is standing
a totally new model
of my body
3.
which is –though it’s the newest–
30 years older
than the oldest model
born in 1973
4.
and that the one who kissed her first
is much more jealous than herself.
DOORS
“… knock, and it shall be opened unto you”, Matthew 7:7
When God slammed shut the lastest of the wounds,
which you forgot to close
when you left, He said:
Knock, and I’ll open unto you.
I knocked and knocked…
A knife was clenching both my fists.
The doors swung open one after another,
but behind each one I found only myself,
with a knife stuck in my back.
1. King James Bible
LOST DRAFT
The dark was copied
with the speed of light
and now we call the graphic errors
“Stars”.
A NON-BIRTHDAY
For Lily and Nikos Kazantzakis
As if
to take revenge
for gravity
the almond tree’s leaves
throw autumn at me…
AGAIN NON-CHRISTIAN
“Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also” Matthew 5:39
If I kiss you on the right cheek
the left will feel itself smitten.
and you,
in your humility,
will turn to me again the kissed:
to punish its unfaithfulness
by giving it a second kiss.
1. King James Bible
MULTIPLICATION BY DIVISIONOR LOWER MATHEMATICS
Life
multiplies the nights without you by me
and gets zero,
and I
get grief for you in a geometrical progression.
The death
divides the days I want to be with you by me
and gets plus infinity
and you:
My heart divided into atoms
and a billion of body cells in cash:
To help you lull to sleep
the life and death…
while counting me
unhurriedly…
A SUSPICIUOUS-LOOKING SELF-CRITICISM OR WHY I HATE WEARING GLASSES
As I’m not seeing beyond my nose
I have to cock it everywhere.