Saturday, September 18, 2010
You told me
You told me
go and eat your
shoelaces.
So I am eating
them
early in the
morning
and all day
long.
Then I shall
fall
into
the sewer.
You will be not
mon amour.
Copyright (c) Marie Neumann
Pottsville, 9/15/2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Name and night
Moon is shining
autos are driving
rhymes are not rhyming
Ian is going to
Erie lake.
Night is bright
Erie is quiet
u see
a moose and
an ape.
Nice to have two
n's in the name.
Copyright (c) Marie Neumann
Pottsville, 9/14/2010
Time
"You are wasting your time."
I am standing at the door.
"Do you want to buy girl scout cookies?"
The knock on another door.
"Do you want to buy
a chocolate bar for Red Cross?"
"Do you want to subscribe
to the newspaper today?"
"You are wasting your time."
"Do you want to buy tickets
to the football game?"
"I am waiting in the line
for the bus tickets to Acapulco."
"You are wasting your time."
I am knocking on the door
for the elderly. "Come in.
You don't have to sell us anything.
We are watching the tree grow."
I am meeting a child jumping a rope.
"I am done with my homework.
I have time before mom will
call me for dinner."
Copyright (c) Marie Neumann
Pottsville, 9/17/2009
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Retiree
My computer is
irretrievably broken
for long time.
All e-mails were sorted
at least twenty times
and are gone by now.
Bank accounts are closed.
There is no money
to put into savings anyway.
All valuables were stolen
and taken away.
What's left is one knife,
little rucksack
and sore feet.
Copyright (c) Marie Neumann
Pottsville, 7/20/2010
Five fingers
Thumb is for greed
forefinger for envy
middle finger for jealousy
ring finger for superiority
and pinkie to delete.
Copyright (c) Marie Neumann
Pottsville, 7/26/2009
Friday, July 16, 2010
The age difference
How old are you?
I would risk ten.
Twenty are too many.
Copyright (c) Marie Neumann
Pottsville, 7/17/2010
What's for the City?
We are coming
to shoot
your picturesque
row houses
falling apart.
"What the City
will get?"
We are coming
to make movies
about your dark
smoky bars,
your falling
apart town,
broken bridges,
your burn
down houses,
your potholes
will be
in the movies.
Aren't you proud?
"What's in here
for the City?
What's in here
for town?"
Your town will be
famous.
Our production
will sleep
in your best hotels.
We will eat
in your restaurants.
"What's in here
for the city?
What the City will get?"
Copyright (c) Marie Neumann
Pottsville, 7/15/2010
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