The Perfect Part by Klaus J. Gerken (2014) Labour So I said to the clerk, Turning up Her nose At me: So I stink, But I'm sure You haven't written 15 books of poetry And edited 12 issues Of a Literary Journal In 12 months While only Sitting pretty In a bathtub Filled with Bubblegum Soap. kjg 1003am 1 feb 2014 * My Cats Someone asked me why I write no poems about my cats. Well simply stated because my cats are poems in themselves beyond any vocabulary we have. kjg 741pm 15 feb 2014 * Staring at a casket! I forgot what I was looking for but found it anyway when I didn't need it anymore. Still don't know what I needed it for in the first place though! kjg 440pm 17 feb 2014 * Hallmark Card submission Rose are red Violets are blue I'm in a shitty mood Hope you are too! kjg 443pm 17 feb 2014 * Blue Meanie Rhyme If there is a blue meanie he has to be purple If he isn't purple He has to be orange If he isn't orange He has to be blue In that case I guess I'm a blue meanie too! KJG 448PM 17 FEB 2014 * Reality is always what it seems to be Master says: Build me a mountain! Pupil gets to work. 10 years later master says: Dig me valley! Pupil get to work. 10 years later master asks: What is important? Pupil answers: To have a goal. Master seems impressed. Go on working he says. kjg 456pm 17 feb 2014 * Relativity Hurry up the door mouse said You ain't got nothing done You think you are a lazy cat Basking in the sun I replied I wonder If the cat didn't slumber You wouldn't be here to question My relative intention kjg 605pm 17 feb 2014 * Resurrection If 100 years from now I am discovered, Those who ignored me now will never recover! kjg 634pm 17 feb 2014 * If you got a sense of humour, Your critics will pass gas sooner! Maybe they'll even go away And shit another day! kjg 639pm 17 feb 2014 * Life has an insatiable stench of rot. * defeat stood up sat down applauded for no reason whatsoever there comes a moment in everyone's life when the public rapes your individuality. kjg 932pm 17 feb 2014 * What? Me? When the moment comes, Don't be surprised! kjg 122am 18 feb 2014 * Odyssey When someone hasn't been anywhere, they can go everywhere; When someone's been everywhere, they just go home. kjg 239pm 18 feb 2014 * Homeward Bound it's midnight and it's raining i have trouble explaining your insightful endeavor that has left us forever there is beauty in trending but sadness in ending i don't know what to tell you sometimes voices depart to where words are not needed and shadows are heeded when the broken surrender there is loss sometimes splendor but i hope that this ending will complete the beginning. 1203am/122am 21 feb 2014 * My Cats Someone asked me why I write no poems about my cats. Well simply stated because my cats are poems in themselves beyond any vocabulary we have. kjg 741pm 15 feb 2014 * Dying Slowly on Purpose Morning winds rattle vacuous windows Aphrodite sends roses to herself Achilles tends to a wounded heel "Drat," he curses, "I should have worn boots!" kjg 540am 15 March 2014 * Death I will wrestle with no demons I will hold no one hostage I will write no testament I will quietly go into the night And disappear What once was earth Will return to earth What once was sky Will return to sky I will have no regrets And less accomplishments The future will define the fate Of what I leave behind I have done what I have done I will harbour no excuse I have lived as I have lived Without regret or sacrifice I worship no god No king or queen And no religious figure I walk my streets alone On a black night Counting stars. kjg 718am 12 - 13 apr 2014 * Morning Rain The transparent haze knocks buildings off their centres and solidifies a viridian sky. kjg 745am 13 apr 2014 * Pupil asks master: What is religion? Master replies: The one eye. Pupil says: I don't understand. Master smiles: You weren't meant to. kjg 1158pm 13 apr 2014 * Merging Hold me for a moment Your flesh upon my flesh As we melt into each other There is nothing we transgress The Holy is a moment Where galaxies must merge It happens where we gather In the human tidal surge! So free me for a second A second will be fine A second is eternity To an open mind! kjg 1237am 14 apr 2014 * Clair de Lune The bright moon cements shadows on the wet pavement after midnight Yellow streetlamps cast a pale blue glow reflecting an aura of feasibility through a secular realm of probability merging improbable reality through probable dreams. kjg 321am 16 april 2014 * Theology If my poems have irregular lines, it's because People have irregular souls that cannot be 'set' upon a page. kjg 326am 16 apr 2014 * Lesson Master says: Cat's on my desk purring Teaching me How to behave! kjg 329am 16 apr 2014 * When you wake All my poems are like dreams; if you dig deep enough you will find the meaning. kjg 332am 16 apr 2014 * How to be a "famous" poet Poems with pretty words have no meaning; Poems with meaning do not have pretty words: Combine both and scholars go insane. That's the way to fame! kjg 336am 16 apr 2014 * Trying to understand the future is like trying to forget the past; it can't be done! kjg 338am 16 apr 2014 * Untitled They commemorate an ugly event as a resurrection. kjg 356am 16 jan 2014 * What I believe I am not a Christian because: I do not need to be "saved"; I am not a Muslim because: I do not need 13 virgins when I'm dead (in fact, I don't need them when I'm alive); I am not a Buddhist because: No-Mind will happen naturally when I die; I am not a Hindu because: I refuse to bathe in a polluted river to be cleansed. If you think I am an atheist, think again; The universe is a living entity we have yet to comprehend. If I do not believe in a god, it's my right, not yours to criticize. kjg 539am 16 apr 2014 * Useless My internet, cable TV, and Phone have been down off and on for almost two days My cats have no clue what's going on all they are concerned about is their comfort food cuddles and me scooping up the poo i think we'd be a much better species if that's all that concerned us too! kjg 439pm 16 apr 2014 * Survival! When I was 15 I wanted to live longer than Chatterton and made it When I was 24 Wanted to live longer than Keats Yup Ditto for Shelley and Byron When I was in my 30's I wanted to live longer than Rimbaud and Modigliani I did In my 40's I wanted to live longer than Baudelaire Sure did When I was 49 I wanted to live longer than Balzac Made that without working myself to death In my 50's I wanted to live longer Than Berryman Sad ending for him But I survived In my 60's I wanted to live longer than Hemingway At least didn't blow my brains out 65 now and I haven't done a thing to deserve it! kjg 308pm 23 april 2014 * The Perfect Part The perfect part Is of the heart It does not argue Many darts It conquers fear Without a tear And sometimes wears A Perfect ear I do not know What made it so But in the end 'Tis so, 'tis so! kjg 1157pm 27 apr 2014 * Eenie meenie minie moe Don't argue what the wind is fo' It blows away a cloudy day And brings the sunshine laugingly! kjg 1203am 28 apr 2014 * Lean as the devil or fat as a priest; When the cats in the pantry the rat has a feast! kjg 1205am 28 apr 2014 * back to the future! i'm an imaginary hero in an imaginary world i have nothing left to offer but an imaginary girl she's a superhero's woman she's a comic heroin* she will take what you can offer and she'll give you what she can I'm the all american retrograde cyberpunk for sure if i had any wisdom i'd say avoid manure! i scale the highest mountain using google earth as guide i tell you i'm a success but always want to hide my girlfriend tells me jesus you never get it done why don't you just all end it with a legal sci fi gun I'm the all american retrograde cyberpunk for sure if i had any wisdom i'd say avoid manure! i run a marathon treadmill that seems to be enough to put me into stasis and show the world i'm tough oh brother can you hear me i'm there both night and day i need no sleep whatever until they carry me away I'm the all american retrograde cyberpunk for sure if i had any wisdom i'd say avoid manure! kjg 916am 30 apr - 509am 1 mar 2014 * Youth The mind is an awful truth of contradiction; Nothing I can say will shed that predilection. I don't suppose the worm is late; The worm will always stir debate! If only youth could suffered age, But youth must always break the plates! kjg 1116am 2 may 2014 * Loss she had tracks on her arms when she left me i warn- ed her to go straight she looked at me empty it was there i saw plenty of expressionless hate the cold winter nights approached me in fright through a hollow commitment i saw neither stars no sunshine but wars she laughed when she used her equipment i was too old to care i lived on a dare where she's now i won't even make bother the place is a mess i have little or less but i'm happy the gun has no fodder kjg 407am 25 may 2014 * All poems copyright (c) 2014 Klaus J. Gerken Published by Ygdrasil Press