109 West 45th St

Yöni ovat täynnä
kiehuvaa vettä ja pelkoa,
että tuntisin oloni paremmaksi

Jumalan sana ylittää
kaikki ekologiset kynnysarvot

Varastetut neonkyltit
hengittävät elotonta henkiin

Jos luet tätä, uskoakseni
sinulla menee melko hyvin

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posted : Friday, February 27th, 2009

tags : fear mythology neon_sign night religion suomi

Labyrinths #1

I’m stumbling past the silos and lone
smokestacks of a city

where pretty girls are a scarcity
they taught me the truth,
this is what you get from wanting something;
a hangover, downturn, an unanswered call and a broken heart

I don’t mind these things
you gave me and I still carry
on in my trunk, my naked possessions,
my own drunken judgment
and my inability to remember the faces

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posted : Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

tags : night city architecture love leaving english

Giuoco Piano

Where I once drank coffee gratis
I now watch a televised performance
of my friend the puppeteer

Knowing I didn’t go to school to learn
to play chess, pot plants, renovate
my house or weave a web

The band’s playing Ástor Piazzolla,
I’m sitting at a fustic table, intoxicated
with a tulip in my hand,

I knew how to write, spell, read and drive
long before hearing a note of L. Cohen

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posted : Saturday, December 13th, 2008

tags : stor_piazzolla music cafe drugs leonard_cohen english memory

Hetki Buenos Airesissa #2

Vähäverinen virta,
metrolinjat, Pascal, laskukone,
Babbage, IBM ja nyt.

Sama liike,
toiset planeetat, vieraat sivilisaatiot,
tunteemme, saaret, kadonneet,
vieneet mukanaan tämän,
suurimman kaikista kaupungeista.

Lasku ja kahvitahra,
auringonpilkun elinaikana
silmänräpäys, vaihdettu katse.

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posted : Monday, November 10th, 2008

tags : science city love cafe buenos_aires suomi

St. James’ Hotel

My nights are filled with
fear of feeling better
and the sound of a kettle boiling

“By following God’s word
are entire ecosystems destroyed”

Nothing like some stolen neon signs
to breathe life into inanimate

“If you’re reading this
your things are probably
pretty OK”

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posted : Monday, November 10th, 2008

tags : fear religion mythology neon_sign city night english

I Hate Halloween

Strove for perfection
Died a loser

(Photo by notratched)

I Hate Halloween

Strove for perfection
Died a loser

(Photo by notratched)

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posted : Saturday, November 1st, 2008

tags : halloween english photograph epitaph

Sub Rosa #1

On every weekday I arrived
at the reading room on 5th Avenue,
12:45 pm sharp

The exactitude will do, stated
the lost Brotherhood of Amman,
their archaic view still consisting of
78! ways to arrange the life

All this took place in the Medieval times,
that much I learnt from the books;
one way was the Lovers

Alienated by the plurality of the present,
foretelling has gone, discarded
To paraphrase: the waiting of afternoon

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posted : Thursday, October 30th, 2008

tags : library love mythology alienation english city new_york_city

Hetki Buenos Airesissa #1

Kadunkulman ravintolassa istuu
kaiku, tyttö jonka kauan sitten hylkäsin,
ja kaikki hänen kelvottomat kirjoituksensa

Muutaman korttelin päässä maailmankaikkeudesta
(jotkut kutsuvat kirjastoksi)

Yksi pilkku kolmekymmentäseitsemän
kerrottuna kymmenellä korotettuna
kymmenenteen potenssiin

Kuparikolikon kääntöpuolen epätarkkuudella
aika, sen keskipiste kaikkialla,
kehää ei missään

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posted : Thursday, October 30th, 2008

tags : love leaving cafe science mythology city buenos_aires suomi