More Than We Are

Came home singing, Sorrento, you said Here
comes Maria Von Trapp - little knowing that I
was being Leo Buscaglia, happy in knowing
about the Necrotelicomnicon* offering a Door
out of this World

I need these dreams because I had to check a
lease contract for my Calvinist colleague who
immediately queried every change I made – I
only did it because I am being paid; it has no
meaning to me

Whether the rental agreement stipulates lease
or rent or bank savings rates or bank rates for
savings; who cares, irrelevant – if she prefers
her own version I am happy to concur – why
ask me in the first place

She ought to know me by now, sounds are
important, not their dictionary meaning, the
sound IS the feeling, keep your definitions,
I will keep on singing, no need to let one
interfere with the other

The most important thing is to determine
whether I am Madame Butterfly, Carmen
or Christine; which role can I sing, how
far can we go, can we love like Leo
Buscaglia, can we

understand the difference between being
who we are - take up our own space or
try to be more than we are…

*Necrotelicomnicon - reference found in
“Moving Pictures” – Terry Pratchett -
Corgi edition 1995, p. 174

En Un Mot – Merveilleuse!

Aujourd’hui la classe de française était merveilleuse
les actualités, la sécheresse et la famine en Somalie
et l’Ethiopie - et une message qu’il y a suffisamment
de nourriture sur la terre aujourd’hui pour nourrir
chaque être humain

L’Afrique qui pourrait être le grenier du monde, mais
les famines se produisent par la guerre et de privations
orchestrées - l’Afrique est le continent des famines
pour créer un spectacle pour faire venir l’aide
internationale; et Charlene

D’Afrique du Sud a fait trois tentatives de fuite parce
Prince Albert de Monaco ont deux autres enfants - et
Dominique Strauss Khann a aussi fait une victime
d’agression de Tristane Banon - l’armée du Sud-
Soudan a suscite

Des accusations de massacres et de viols, le loi de
protection de l’information: 'contre le journalisme
d’investigation' n’est pas accepte ici dans l’Afrique
du Sud - et le Kremlin s’intéresse dans la décision
de l’Union Africaine

De ne pas appliquer le mandat d’arrêt de la Cour
pénale internationale contre le colonel Kadhafi –
François Mitterrand s’acoquina avec les vieilles
oligarchies - olé! La classe de Marine Bigot était
en un mot – merveilleuse!

Swaying Then Dancing (Revised)

There’s no escape from scrambled thoughts,
while crushed under a grey day reports of my
mother in pain, and Carine, weighed down by
four steel pegs and ten screws in her leg,

Went out marching, swaying then dancing
to musical rhythms, becoming one with the
beat of the universe, careless to the world
as velvet voices sing delight into my mind

“Let me whisper in your ear, say the words you
want to hear, I’m in love with you, just the two
of us, the only sound that you will hear is when
I whisper in your ear - I love you”

“All over the world people just like us are falling
in love…” and I feel all the people like me
joyously swaying in every possible universe…