ZSUZSA by Klaus J. Gerken 2007 I She comes to me with pepper in her hair She comes to me with rags of cinnamon She mouths words speech that clicks the wind grows grass makes mountains melt cheeses up the moon makes me harder than a frozen nickel She comes to me like a naked peach out of reach in my arms and i in her vagina come to her alive while she kills me with saliva sucking deep inside my soul searching for what i haven't got mounting my concern beneath sycamore trees sliced bananas shattered ice She comes to me broken promises moon shadows life that is not death nor death that is not life something rather similar to hope addressed in quicksand on a planet no one knows but only shelter on She comes to me heart open fist closed soup of i love you's beneath moldy blankets creaky bed love knots tied to circumstance She comes to me I come to her the moon is shadow free there is substance in the wind i cannot feel is there love that can be real flesh we feel to emotions can we only kneel She comes to me or i to her or the crossing of the bar takes us very far or nowhere She comes to me I to her very near we enter what we cannot bare alone I come to her I cannot kneel She cannot feel Sex does not seem real love is no solution to this deal 13 mar 07 II She comes to me Bookworms in the alley Splinters up my back She comes to White yellow roses Moss upon the thorns Nails of sleet unshorn A proven panacea She makes livid every dream Vital to survival What survival depends on her She comes to me Blood red in her vagina After sex is mended - gone She hurts the human ego Because she's born Beyond what "man" can be not just a shadow but a shadow made of me III She comes to me Brilliantly Purposefully examining everything She comes to me a back street girl gingerbread bittersweet mango vines She comes to me a cave I have not been to purple pink and saffron warm and like a comfort to a dying race one man to survive she understands her duty makes amends the struggle god evolved the screams she soothes creating wounds She comes to me Blood red alley Fingertips Drunken harbours Policy fools Ships inspected Madmen rule She comes to me Removes excesses Exposes where the truth has been Within a sacred holograph Rants upon the hollow so-demeans And fogs the room with purple dust She tells me I am 'nuts' I hold her in the gap of my desires She asks, 'sire?' I smile - just smile we're in the mire She comes to me love's disease cell on cell atom upon atom quark intermingles quark love is never higher love does not exist deep in our survival atoms intermingle replicate in a holy space IV She comes to me lollipops and ice cream history that is not real Leopard Mozart Modigliani and Chagall Michelangelo and Heaven The pope and condoms Africa and the lottery they cannot win She comes to me pearls in her hair ultra-violet contact lenses she sees Van Goth stars no one can see but she shows everyone their graphic imbecility myopic dreams slow degrading truth She comes to me fulsome meet the Rolling Stones dive into a pool of mud milk the cow for all he's got she sees everything she'd Diana Cybil Medusa God She comes to me faith is in her hands swastika her tattoo holy relic dahlia lama poet in retreat she offers her own sentiment never her defeat She comes to I come to her I offer nothing I listen She explains She makes no sense at all And concur With everything she says she structures her amazement at everything she does I cannot provide a replacement for what she does V She comes to me bleeding bleeding bleeding tears She comes to me gathering the fears no one understands She comes to me rising like RA upon the east horizon and sets with s-baq at night sebakau is her desire fleeting wings of fire she sired Ulysses but ultimately is Breton's Nadja floating in an evil moment gluttony aboard "jew ship in the harbour" denied and Columbus with a thousand ships ventured forth She came to me explaining what no one else explained before Freda and her Vikings Yggdrasil and how gods are born Norma and her children Wagner and his worms When society is everything Life is nothing more Than chickens in a pen Less laws mean great strides in humanity More laws restraints She comes to me An interlocking shadow light and dark black and white medium a "kiss so quickly forgotten" a light that is not earned She comes to me Caves Spring Chardonnay Caves where first we slow emerged man woman woman man who knows where life began where life begins ends somewhere there is what we do not know what we know is where are no past no present no future indeed if we exist we exist nowhere She comes to me a red dwarf with a human planet around her neck She comes to me I do not know Why she comes to me She comes to me starlight star bright... whatever moon is there tonight She comes to me the door opens the door closes the key turns the sky burns She comes to me favorably 26 April 2007 VI She comes to me Isn't that enough? Published by Ygdrasil Press 2007 Copyright (c) 2007 Klaus J. Gerken