Short Hamburg Poems

The
flotsam
of existenz-
floating down the
Elbe.


Ekphrasis -Storm Tide in Hamburg by Kokoschka...

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The Day after grad.
The day after you grad. You get home not knowing what to do.
Looking through the newspaper.
A butcher, a baker, a Hamburg maker.
No plans at all but just had to call. Mickey Ds or the cow king. They say jobs are 
good.
I walk the floor I just can't do it no more. 
Dam I want to go back to school...

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Prostitution 

I never liked horses, 
oh yes, they are beautiful 
and dumb
and crap in their food
on the grassland of forever.
Horses are like Romanian women,
you catch them, rape them 
and tamed you sell them 
in Hamburg as tame whores, 
who can be ridden by any man 
for a bit of cash.
And all the owners of horses have
to do is to serve them weed....

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In Hamburg I loved 
A strange girl,
She put my whole being
In a whirl,

She spurned everybody 
But me,
I made her happy,
In Hamburg.

But if she had
Spurned me,
I'd have looked her in the eye,
And run away,

And in my room,
I would have cried,
I might even have died,
In Hamburg.

(Very faithfully based on a song written aged ca. 18)....

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He
left a
legacy
for us all to 
see-
love's passion
emoted-
on an open
fan

Kokoschks'a fans on display Museum Fur Kunst & Gwerbe,Hamburg.Six fans survive that 
evidenced this romance with Alma Mahler


http://www.alma-mahler.com/engl/almas_life/alma_im_werk_kokoschkas.html


http://www.artrepublic.com/prints/11969-wood-on-the-downs-giclee-limited-edition-of-
850.html...

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you entered my foundation 
silence abode the quaint structures 
of a meaningful gothic erosion
between a quiet reasoning 

as I opened above the perfect 
foundery beckoning precision 
of a sensitive naught that quivered 
and quaked throughout a bias time
 
tinged with morality that craved 
an infamous pout where you collected 
shells of sadness and compassion 
well crafted amid the calm sea
 
forming a gentle finish abraisive 
an yet shattered feelings abroad 
that read I love you back...

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