Wetzlar @ Franzis 11/22/17 #poetry


Are you waiting to talk?
Are you waiting to listen?
What are you waiting for?

What’s inside your bottle?
Is it milk? Is it juice?
How much butter do you need
For your bread?

Like sheets on the bed
The windmills pull back the clouds
And reveal the sunshine

What does the new day
Bring for you.
Will you clean the floor.
Will you fix the fence.
Will you count the money.

We paint our ears with mud from the Farm
We practice the art of rolling down a hill together
When we raise our glasses
We look each other in the eye.
We hold each other this way.
We hold each other With our eyes.
And we listen with no concern
For when we speak again.

Cologne @ Hängenden Gärten 11/21/17 #poetry

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Tonight we do not hide in the dirt
Our feet are in the sky
The flowers are our clouds
We harvest the herbs of life
And celebrate beneath
The hanging garden
We savor our time with friends
Like fried potatoes
Our feelings are a light
The light brings understanding
The light brings blindness
The blindness brings flavors
We never tasted before
Tonight we express ourselves
Like children learning a new language.
We feed the goats raw corn
They grind it with their strong teeth
We pound our laundry on the rocks
And huddle for warmth inside
Together we breath into the pain
And out

Barenbach @ Shorty’s 11/20/17 #poetry


If you cannot reach
The top of the mountain
Try Yodeling to your friends

When kindness comes
Naturally accept it
It is the only God I believe in
Today I see her everywhere

A bird sitting on cold branch
An ashtray full of rain water
A donkey eating hay
A picture of a cat with an orange
A family dancing to punk rock

I hear the books talking to me
I see the records painting their pictures
The message is in the torn couches
The painted paw prints on the fence
Send us a sign. The animals are making sculpture every day.

What does it say?

It says: Hallö! Welkomen.
Would you like a coffee or maybe a beer.
Are you hungry? Here is the toilet.
Make yourself at home.