Mulhouse @ Gambrinus 11/16/17 #poetry

Teaching kids how to make sausage
It’s not so pretty
How to marry the meat with the spices.
How to mix the fat with the flesh
How to kill the pig.
How to wash your hands.
To prepare the guts for stuffing.
It’s not so easy.

De temps en temp J’oublie.
And I write the same poem twice.
But the sausage is never the same
Twice.
It’s not a fast process.

When the whole town sees how
The sausage is made
There is no mystery in the meal
There is no fear in the food
The is no worry that the sausage
Knows something
We don’t.

Darmstadt @ HoffART Theater 11/15/17 #poetry


Cookie for your liver
Coffee for your brain
Cigarette for your lungs
And a schnitzel for your heart

In the country
It is the buildings and the cars
That tell us there are people

When the road is closed
We take another road
When that road is closed
We look for another way

If a bird eating a berry
Drops a seed from it’s mouth
And a berry tree grows
Why is it more natural
Than if the man in the bright yellow suit
Plants a tree by the side of the road?

We begin again every day
We finish nothing
Until the flavors of the soup
Are perfect
Or until we are too tired
To taste the difference

Nürnberg @ K4 11/14/17 #poetry


I do all my best work in the past.

Sometimes it feels difficult
To start one thing
When another is unfinished

The rocks look like mushrooms
The fog makes us feel like we’re cooking.
Our juices are coming out
They make water for the plants.

I did all my best work in the future.

Sometimes it is hard to imagine
That anything
Is ever really finished

Ground control to Mr. Tom
All the amazing things
One can do with peanuts.
It’s not over yet.
When will it be enough.

We can not boil away
The bugs in our stomach
We can not peal our skin
Like the covering on a Weißwurst

Where is the line between
government and music
Where is the line between
people and art
Where is the the line between
The line between the lines
That keep the cars from
Smashing