Isn’t it nice
when your computer talks to you? 
 
Like just now, 
when a smooth female 
anchorperson voice 
told me in High German 
that printing had begun. 
 
If only that smooth 
female anchorperson 
were in this room now! 
 
This room with its disorder, 
piles of books, muddy 
coffee cups, rock crystal 
chunks (that have not been 
bathed and rinsed in months), 
its apple cores, 3M 
stickers and dust and 
inhabitant. 
 
She has funny cars
There are a few Jefferson Airplane song titles that have nothing to do with what the songs are about. This was and still is très chic. 
 
In some cases even the songs themselves have nothing to do with what they are about, and these songs are the ones called obtuse by the critics. This is the ultimate in chiquism and defines a border which cannot be overcome. 
 
The band members that wrote these songs wholeheartedly agree with the critics in statements that imply they remember the details surrounding these songs only very dimly. Children that turn into strangers once the umbilical cord has been cut. 
 
I dreamed about Phoolan Devi last night
The attacks on the police and army she staged 
were so successful because she introduced the 
Finnish-built Aavaristo machine gun which was 
extremely effective and also so distinctively 
loud that it clearly indicated to the authorities 
that she and her gang really meant business. 
 
Women and Borges
Pero es que Borges vivió casi toda 
su vida con amores desdichados y 
con amores muy intensos. 
              
  A. Bioy Casares 
I 
 
Gives me the impression of unspeakably 
filthy acts, far worse than getting spat 
in the face 
                  Premeditated, slow, plentiful 
 
 
II 
 
But there’s plenty of unspeakable 
in everyday married or unmarried 
life 
      The sacrament of marriage 
 
Daring games: He, physically 
more powerful, willpower strangled 
by spider woman’s stare 
 
                                         While 
perfectly willing and able 
to dole out cruelty at the workplace 
and even shag the secretary 
or God knows what wretched female 
except for that tyrannical flower 
of womanhood given away by 
priest with gold ring and brimborium 
 
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