De Verlaten Stad

                Vanaf de veld we zagen De Stad
zijn poort verlichte door een meanderende vermiljoen latei

                 En toen we kwamen er nabij we zagen meer
duidelijk de kleine indiaan...

...met z'n roze-karmozijn kromsabel boven naast z'n hoofd.

The Market

No connection here, now none.

Either or

Techno, so apropos for this stale old bar

Swing about, now it's clear

it was before that I've been here

Prior to this, there was no connection at all

Swing back round, and now by the wall

a rag-tag dog panting to a musical score


In the laundromat next door

the trolls invoke their accents and chide

.......an empire of riches


Styrofoam and garbage laps in the tide.

New Providence

dusty yellow day tilts through the rectangular window frame

great halls out below

and the country beyond?

not Illyria, Macedon or Thrace

just a hill, in an English city

from the memory of a long-dead, flaxen haired man

who paddled languidly to an anchored carrack

and paused by the hull to quip

'such gentle reeds that sway'

and then, at this notion

set sail for the wide and interminable ocean.

By Corinth

Malthos, Ouranos, Thalassa

Evanescent beauties
Xenophon and Morpheus
polymaths both
Long steady walks on the plains by Corinth
instinctively alone
from Arcadia until Attica

Gentle hunger
even elsewhere am I, all the time
Uniquely simple
it is by the coast upon a heath
in varying shades of skin and sky
forever walking past the heather
like a spectre
forever boggling over a name
for the colour of the ocean by night
beneath overcast heavens

Itinerant Malthos
at Ouranos
by Thalassa.

Déjà Vous

Can you say 'Perth' in a Dutch accent?

Could you forego style for function?

Are you  a typical guy or girl?

Do objects distract you through their intention,

or how they intend you to feel?

If so, stuff your face some more

Because your heart's about to hold that gun to your head and make you say;

"It seems like I've been here before".

Tony, from 68th Street

- Knock knock.

Who's there?

- Tony.

Tony who?

- Tony, from 68th Street.

Come on up.

- Great

De Engelse Stad

Door het raam de Klingon Hoge Raad.

En het land verderop?

Qo'noS niet. Alleen een kop

van een Engelse stad

dat binnen m'n verbeeldingskracht heb gehad