“In order to write about life first you must live it.” – Ernest Hemingway
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Flowers for my parents

Trapped in a small living room
the rose wants to bloom, it grows,
opens its shells, shows its thornsand asks very quietly, “touch me,
there on the silk soft spots, not at
the bottom where it will poke.”
While the growing stops
and the living groom becomes
the thought of a man craving more,where he’s hiding some porn
hidden inside the keyhole
watches her meander and settle
the light long left behind
like dirty water in a glass jar
where it sucks and pulls until it falls,
the rose is huge, in his mind
the petal shrinks, behind,
she shows him the waytoo late, the room full,
the rose wilts
the key turnsback, locked.

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Lost Theatre Love

I met her during a theatre course. The first lesson, we had to improvise in pairs of two, I immediately scolded her for ‘bitch’ and ‘whore’, with the rest of the students applauding loudly. It was fiction.
Screaming it out for a moment felt great. Sparks splashed out of my eyes, I was totally in character. She was impressed. The next lesson, I saw her again, right in front of the rehearsal hall. I couldn’t remember her name. That happens more often.
She immediately lured me with her eyes and asked my lips what I was studying. I started, completely under the spell of hypnosis: ‘I hate boxer shorts, ‘ and I pulled on my trousers a bit. She looked at my jeans ‘I like boxer shorts, nice and sexy, ‘ at which I shyly stuttered: ‘I like boxer shorts, to sleep with them um, during the day not, because that … irritates my um.’
Her study friend arrived just then and a wonderful example of communication was gagged. I then proceeded to read all the texts, because I was so good at that. Reading passages, we often had to do that, then we sat around the table and chose what we found interesting. That day she sat next to me, I read from Heiner Müllers Quartet:
‘O noble maiden, lovely child, delightful niece, your innocence makes me change my gender.’
She put her hand on my leg.
‘Fate between my legs makes me wish for such a change.’She, my newfound theatrical love, rubbed my jeans as if they were soft velvet. What was small became big. I read the text even more intensely. At the same time, I didn’t know where to stay with my thoughts. I began to stumble. Her hand disappeared, away from the scene. I lost my eyes among the print. Dyslexic, everything disappeared into letters that jumped from one place to another, making reading impossible. Silence.
She looked at her friend with a gaze as if she had just stolen my virginity. I saw red. The rest looked at me in surprise and a little pitiful, someone relieved me and read on. My head was pounding, trying to organise everything neatly, but this was something I couldn’t do right now. Was this a hint or some lurid game whose secrets I did not know. For just a moment I felt that hand, a touch, and I was already being robbed of my sanity.
After the lyrics, we went to rehearsal the scenes. As one big happy group losing their souls in the lyrics, and me, anxiously hiding behind them. A few glances still reached me. By the end of the evening, I was shaking so hard that I couldn’t open my bike lock.
The very next week she disappeared from my life, she was too busy with her studies, so she informed us. That day I lost a piece of theatre love.
I didn’t know her, nor did I dare to ask who she was or where she lived. From now on, I decided to take full advantage of every touch, respond to it, not let it go and receive it so the gates of heaven would no longer close for me.
By, my theatrical love.

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That other world
I can’t focus. I am already in ecstasy when I only touch the gently broken texture of the paper in front of me. The structures of the writing, not seeing them but feeling them. Rub them with my fingertips or with my downy dry lips and then read them aloud, gently blowing, breathing in and out. Whether they form perfect sentences or not. I don’t care. They thrill me.
I touch the words and fall into an endless sleep, a single contact and my mind pushes my flesh to a place where it shudders and trembles, where it delights, where life is allowed and explodes.
Words dissolve into sentences, sentences into paragraphs that disappear into stories. In my mind, they flow into every nerve and channel my body into another dimension. Waking up in a strange sleep. Feeling when you dare to touch. Writing is an awakening into a new world.
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Trainmusing

I muse through the window frame,
torturing myself by thinking about
what I
don’t know,
that I
don’t know,where to go,
that I don’t know why I exist.
I muse on a way forwards,and despair sits next to me.
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Strange creatures
Much too late, weary creatures unable to find sleep wanders down the streets. It is such a night, where the wind petrifies my gloomy features and I dance and clash with the darkness of the night.
Groaning in a period of restlessness, I jump back into the valley of banality.
Shadows follow and whispers poison into my ear. Go and enter this gathering of personalities and drink, drink now!
I push myself forward to the bar while I arrive at my destination, wet of the merciless clouds. Immediately, I take refuge in a corner. After the passing of two glasses of cheap poison, a woman stands right in front of me. She is dressed in a long grey coat and has her hands covered in bearskin gloves. Only the pink tips of her fingers are visible. They are sticky and she raises her hand, while making its way to my nose. I look at her sceptically.
‘It’s delicious,’ she says and pushes her fingertips into my mouth. A sweet taste oozes in. My petrified face forces a smile and the lips mumble ‘yummy’. She rubs her behind against my leg and then disappears merrily, hopping into that dark heavy coat.
I wasn’t recovered yet when another creature stands next to me.
A female with a cigarette and far too narrow leather pants. As her eyes stare upwards, she asks:
‘Do you know some people here?’
‘Nope,’ I answer confidently. She takes a sip from my beer.
‘And you?’ I ask.She goes away.
Okay ignore me. If nothing more interests you about me, then I’m also not interested.
There she comes back, after chatting with another male. Half drowned, she crawls on top of me and whispers that she wants to have fun. She grabs her hand toward my half stiff sword and wants to squeeze it. I feel my weapon slacken. And behold, her friend also wants to come to me. Such a sap in a pantsuit and leather jacket. He enters our private space and reaches out with his oozing tongue. I push him away. He begins to yell at me, she at him, he at her and all at each other.
After some financial aids the trouble was done, the quarrel bribed.
I go to find me a new corner, far away from here. I shuffle forward, trying not to slip on the mud-covered floor. Then my being is caught by a miracle of a woman, a wonder woman without the Marvel suit.
She, sobbing on a bench. I, shrink down.
My eyes began to bleed and my mind – oh well, let’s be silent about that. So, I put myself beside her.
‘Can I help you with something?’
What was I supposed to say? She didn’t respond.
‘Would you like something to drink?’ Still nothing and my feet bathing in that delicate fluid leaving her eyes.There, an Angel comes. She puts herself beside her. A miracle. Both begin to talk softly, fear losing their voices, soft and sweet. I just catch a few words, words coming from a soap opera.
‘I’m sorry, can you forgive me?’
Her weeping disappears and lust appears, right next to me, they lick their wounds. A little too much.
Now that corner has also had its turn. Anxiously and upset, violated and drunk, I search the bar of the renegades to empty a last cup of poison. A man next to me, chatting at the bar, tells me about the women in his life. He brags of the many “kinds and colors” he had. I ask him what kind of work he does.
‘I work in a mortuary.’ He laughs and begins to cry.Hurry, go outside! Where the morning sun already greets my being, and throws me shadows cast by bare pine trees, stabbing like razor-sharp knives into the neglected flesh of this earth. After an undetermined time, I reach the corner of my little room.
To find sleep, I first turn to an old playboy with “Shannen Doherty” in lingerie.
Sleep found me, soon, too late, too soon.