Sunday, December 30, 2018

Travelogue



a beautiful Russian woman
with kind eyes and strong hands
 grabs me before i slip on
  dirty ice
and asks me if i am lost
  i want to say
that this feels like home and
      she is my first friend


            later, i am drinking in a narrow
bar, the linoleum and zinc
         are making love to the TV
with a football match
       nobody really cares about
          Dinamo still sucks even
on a brand new screen they look
             like last year
We're just here
        and i drink what everybody else does
          they still know i don't belong


  I have one pan and some tumblers,
           someone left a pot in the
     cupboard, which i plan to annex and
           add to my growing empire
There are 3 plates, and now i laugh at
         my ambition but secretly
 hope that i will need even more
         
     There are yellow lights
that make the snow look like sewage
          trees are fighting back from
inside their black metal cages

  I know the language
can read the signs and
      feel aware, but
not included while i know
       that these belonging to others
              is the only warmth
                   that matters here.

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