Apparently "Rickety Rocket" is a 70s/80s cartoon series about four teenagers and their rickety rocket. Does anybody remember it? I don't. Because at that time I was pooing my pants, a day was a month, a month was a lifetime and the universe was the wide open park adjacent to the place where I grew up...
Friday, April 18, 2008
Tansania, Juli 2001
Dezember 1997
Leaving you coming back again
Trees sleep when they like
They spread their arms
And let the wind do the rest
I’m on a 24 hour bus trip
Each time I wake up, I’m at another place
So when I had been back home for a while,
And a friend asked me: Did you arrive?
Are you present and alive?
I had to say no, for what I had left on the bus.
Just like that day on the airplane,
When it had stopped in mid-air
And my drowsy brain
Took the moon-cratered landscape of the wing
For the country where I was heading.
Dinge, die ich in Lüttich auf der Straße fand
Eine Haarspange
Zwei kleine braune Kacheln
Zwei Feuerzeuge
Eine „frische Farbe Notiz“
Eine volle Dose Bier
Ein Werkzeug in Schlüsselanhängergröße
Eine Schachkönigin
Einen Bleistift aus China
Einen gebrochener Rückspiegel
Eine rote Rose
Ein Schneckenhaus
Eine „the Doors“ Schallplatte („Who scared you“)
Eine kleine grüne Murmel
Ein Foto eines Judokämpfers
Einen blauen Plastikball.
Wishing Well
I wish I could sleep cat-like
I wish I could paint in a snail shell
I wish I could walk in a clay-pot
I wish I would blossom with my shoes on
I wish I would dream of a shipyard
I wish my spine would crack
Like the back of a book. Open.
The days before flying was discovered

So he was standing on the lookout, digging the dirt to find something buried, when the perspective changed and I could see the scene from above.
The mountain facing the lookout with the kneeling archaeologist looked from above like his own face. All he could see was a part of his chin but he couldn’t make sense of it: It was in the days before flying was discovered.
I Jump
Back into the wind
There are only two lights
And the way you hold yours
Shuffles my feet
On top of the dune
Hushed sand below
Work
When cloudlets pass the rising sun
And might make you sneeze
Or meet another one
Who just discovered a favourite place
As you might now?