escape from Finland

The Escape

When Rudolph the red nosed reindeer wanted to

Be normal and join the flock on earth, Santa got depressed

Sat by many of Finland’s lakes contemplating his life

He too was tired of flying through the air and gets a cold

He wanted sunlight and a sandy beach.

He got hold of a tame water buffalo and an unemployed

Drunk from Helsinki and for a while they got away with it

Till an elf with a grudge told a newspaper about it and children too

Had long wondered why Rudolph had two horn, not antler and why

Santa was late, swore and kept falling off his sledge.

Santa had to come back from Thailand and sort out this corruption

He told twitter he was sorry, but fired blabber mouthed elf.

He had to look for sober man to act as Santa and train a new reindeer,

Because Rudolph and had got the taste of the high life.

escape

The Escape

When Rudolph the red nosed reindeer wanted to

Be normal and join the flock on earth, Santa got depressed

Sat by many of Finland’s lakes contemplating his life

He too was tired of flying through the air and gets a cold

He wanted sunlight and a sandy beach.

He got hold of a tame water buffalo and an unemployed

Drunk from Helsinki and for a while they got away with it

Till an elf with a grudge told a newspaper about it and children too

Had long wondered why Rudolph had two horn, not antler and why

Santa was late, swore and kept falling off his sledge.

Santa had to come back from Thailand and sort out this corruption

He told twitter he was sorry, but fired blabber mouthed elf.

He had to look for a sober man to act as Santa and train a new reindeer,

Because Rudolph and had got the taste of the high life. 

Entry | Write Out Loud

Entry | Write Out Loud

Ratcatcher

 I feel repulsed when he is near I ought to have

 compassion for this cripple a twisted foot and

 an arm that does not function right a beggar with

scabby skin eyes as black as looking into the dark

side of a wishing star. This is not a man you

can be nice to the more you give him the more he

hates you and wishes you an early death.

 His diversion is to follow funeral processions but

not into the cemetery no one wants him there 

I have wondered why I hate this man so much

it must have had a background of my childhood

and I found it. After the war in Norway there was

 some hunger in the land but I had noticed at

the gymnasium where the children of the middle

classes went to become our future suits, a concrete

box for trash and unopened parcels of lunch food.

But I had to be quick rats knew it too had a parcel

 in my hand when a rat jumped up tried to grab it

 and its eyes shone of loathing it hated me for being

human just like the cripple who dislike humanity he

blames for his perpetual hardship. In the knowledge

he will hate me more I now give him a shilling or two,

this dirty little man who never takes a bath has a mother

denying she gave birth to this satanic being, but I fear

 him too, four black horses and he, the only mourner.

TV. Reflections

The news is deeply depressing, except for a Yemeni

woman activist trying to explain to a dense reporter

that Yemen do not need outside interference.

The reporter wanted to know about Iran, everyone

does, the Saudis and the Israelites.

Iran is a big regional power and has influences in

the regions... big deal.

I turn to the weather forecast, drizzle in Singapore    

and that is not so bad. I have never been there

Only seen pictures, a sort of place only businessmen

Would like to visit

Blustery in Oslo, that brings out a giggle, serves it

right, the people live in fear that the foreigners will come

change their hardy culture- beer and street fights-

little do they now that Norway is not on top of the list

where the unsheltered masses like to go. 

a secret reviled

a secret reviled

Secrets reviled

Eva Braun was a Greenland seal lived in an aquarium Herr
Hitler Liked animals

his dog loved him truly. Dog lovers are supposed to be kind.
Love on first sight.

So perhaps there was a call for a loving word that was
denied in his childhood;

by the fireside and on his lap the dog sat and he whispered
sweet words into

 the dog’s ear a
moment when his mind was not contaminated by Jewish blood. 

In the country I lived in there were many islands most of
them have

a bridge now and no longer feels like islands.  Nevertheless we were standing

by the gangway of a ferry you were going to see your sister,
I knew you were

getting away from me. My love for you were total, yours were
not, you just left

without telling me why. Distances I beginning to feel but my
unhappiness was

an annoyance, you gave me a phone number to but it didn’t
work, gurgling noises

a phone dropped into a fish tank, but I heard repressed
laughter

You were married to a sea master golden rings on is uniform
and that is ok;

you and the master of the sea never got children. Widow a
childless woman

 your dishonesty
bothers me, Eva Braun’s fish tale was as phony as

your loves for me were.    

Burundi

Burundi

Burundi

Burundi

Elusive it is the dream of peace

and the Burundi the president is seeking a third term,

but the people say NO, and fight for

a fair election, in dusty streets.

Africa has had enough of presidents who will  not

 give up power and lucrative ill-gotten gains.

People of Burundi, I salute you.