Thus Spoke Zarathustra Gosling

The Nietzsche Super Gosling

climbs onto the rocks

out of the pond

she picks up a pen

and charts her ideas

for the long term survival of her species

given the looming threat of a new ice age

meteor strike or atomic annihilation.

THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA GOSLING

Uber Grunshnabel

(The Uber Whippersnapper).

April Opens

I plant Ghost Thistles

in the garden

the week the compulsory

redundancys are announced.

The dog barks at something I can’t see

and the first fly of spring lands on

my snoring wife’s leg

as she sleeps in the garden.

At that moment my neighbours house alarm

goes off

and I know he’s not at home.

Published by United Press 2011

Narcissus Americano

The reflection in my Americano

shows the large chandelier on the café ceiling

which now looks like a spider

that has lampshades on its feet

in my coffee.

This observation reminds me of the

Tibetan myth of The Monkey and the Moon

Or even the myth of Narcissus.

But I will not form a chain from the ceiling with my fellow monkeys

to fish out the spider like in the Tibetan myth

or gaze longingly at my reflection like Narcissus

until I grow old

no

drink your drink

and move on

never look back

for monkeys, spiders or cool reflections.