the smell of hot tea
and behind the green curtains
brown & yellow leaves
* * *
Hello, Nutella
I’ve looked for you for so long
and now I’ve found you
* * *
cerebus statue
barking at me silently
on 9/11
* * *
the Villenviertel
the East Egg of Godesberg
flooded with sunlight
* * *
Linie 16
carries me asleep into
Wesseling daybreak
* * *
Schoener Hofgarten
die gruene, grosse Wiese
Frisbee, anyone?
* * *
Red regional trains
connect the dots cross-country
to Oktoberfest
* * *
Cafe Goettlich sign
a warm magenta welcome
in the autumn rain
* * *
at the Spielhalle
while men smoke and place wagers
I type an e-mail
* * *
one thirsty midnight
I took an epic bike ride
to the Tankstelle
* * *
after the movie
I gave Susi a ride home
in a shopping cart
* * *
At the Hauptbahnhof
Schloss-Drinkers get together
and drink cans of Schloss
* * *
a circular dance
jump and kick the hacky sack
up into the clouds
* * *
Frueh, Reissdorff, Gaffel
Kuppers, Dom, Sion, Gilden
So viele Koelsche
* * *
statues and hedges
reflecting ponds and cabbage
gardens of Schloss Bruehl
* * *
a promising Herbst
now leaves and hopes have fallen
guess I’ll go to Prague
* * *
scenes of childhood
reflected in sunglasses
worn by a young boy
* * *
Poppelsdorfer Schloss
genau ein kilometer
vom Hauptgebaeude
* * *
Bus sagt: “Naechster Halt:
Am Botanischen Garten”
Hier steigen wir aus
* * *
lamplight from a house
stained-glass window in my mind
one November night
* * *
Schneekugelanschlag
in the Ippendorfer moor
almost killed Felix
* * *
People slide and fall
frozen Muensterplatz at night
Beethoven schaut an
* * *
inside the globe lamp
the coolest spot in my room
I’ll never visit
* * *
die Spanierennen
tanzen den ganzen Abend
ich spiele Kicker
* * *
We drank a whole Kranz
before our train left Kologne
wreath of little beers
* * *
Mangelexemplar
a great name for a punk group
fucked-up example
* * *
the green light above
Dottendorfer Jugendkreuz
we thought it was France
* * *
my African friends
smoked me out of house and home
but I still love them
* * *
der Mann fragte mich
ob ich etwas Kleingeld hab
leider hab ich nix
* * *
A city of screens
the coolest kids see movies
at Kinopolis
* * *
Sovjietlokal
the cigarette smoke travels
so high from such depths
* * *
Egal was es ist:
Fahrplaene, Landeskunde
Chris Cho weisst alles
* * *
rats chase each other
through the Christmas Village scene
im Kaufhoffenster
* * *
would you like to hear
eine kleine Pfeifmusik?
so ein geiles Lied
* * *
Silvester am Rhein
drunken rockets of midnight
World War II again
* * *
with another day
comes another disaster
pass the Chipsletten
* * *
time to ride the rails
let the Deutsche bahn shake you
out of this numbness
* * *
Hextentanz Abend
the over-forty parties
on the Godesburg
* * *
huge and unfinished
the Deutsche Post Gebaeude
houses my lost mail
* * *
a traveler notes
the letters that spell “Let’s Go”
Also spell “Get Lost”
* * *
with the price increase
the schoenes wochenende
ist nicht mehr so schoen
* * *
Graf Zeppelin Bar
my hopes for romance have crashed
into the beermat
* * *
the dark gazebo
along a midnight bike path
sehnsucht of shadows
* * *
baby statue moons
the other side of the Rhein
wo die Sonne scheint
* * *
face smeared with flowers
he holds up a broken string
and points it at me
* * *
I’m a good Dryad
I have trees to tend to and
trees to tend to me
* * *
trees stand tall along
Poppelsdorfer Promenade
Mittsommernachtstraum
* * *
electric summer
Gitarre und Gewitter
Death Have No Mercy
* * *
Rheinisch Apollo
rests his elbows on the banks
he’s in no hurry
* * *
Spinat mit Feta
oder Pizza Salami
Cala-Dor Fete
* * *
vorsichtig bleiben
Tueren schliessen selbstaetig
and don’t reopen
* * *
in den Weinbergen
wo mein Fahrrad versteckt ist
spielen die Zwerge
* * *
just about to sleep
when the SMS arrives:
“explodieren wir?”
* * *
Rheinauereise
I’ve been walking through this park
all night and all day
* * *
He lets his hair down
and dances like a dervish
er ist Der Bobby
* * *
end of the party
a guitar watches over
the sleeping lady
* * *
echoes of a laugh
as we head out of this town
down the primrose path
lucas wetzel 