Water on Concrete

Istanbul and Los Angeles
Nothing
can be more poetic
than water on concrete
N.E.L. is my nick name
N.E.L. is my eke-name
N.E.L. is my Ekelname, my Ökelname
Listen to these
booming beats
roaring through the
streets of
is-tim-bólin or is-tam-bólin
İstánbul or Istámbul or Byzantion or Constantinople...
and Los Aztlan, or Hell.A., or La La Land
or Tovaangar, or El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles
Listen to the
water
on concrete…
Listen to the
voices from
the past.
They never go away.

Tongues United

Mumkin
Arabic voices at the screening
Picture us all
talking the same language
at the screening
Picture Nynorsk and Bokmål
all rolled into one
Arabic and Hebrew
German and Yiddish
Hebrew and Yiddish
Patois and English
English and Gullah
BEV and Gullah
Kréol and French
all speaking one language
Picture this – mumkin…
Maybe the muʾminūn will
create one religion for us all
Heinrich Schmid will create one
idiom for us all
Picture us
all talking the same language
Picture one app
translating everything for all of us
Picture one programming language
programming for all of us
Picture this!

Titane

hispano-suiza
dacia et renault
c'est titane,
la petite anne,
qui te parle
de son amour
des bagnoles
elle a une mercedes benz
dans son
cerveau !
la petite anne
c'est notre
petite maman
elle danse
sur le funk
elle danse
sur la funk
c'est la petite anne

Pilates med Emmenthaler

Fuck dig Emmenthaler
your Pilates privileges are revoked
if I want to assemble things
I'll go to fucking Ikea
Old Nick is feasting
with the witches
at the aquelarre
you thought
you were
fighting
the Devil
yet
it was the Devil
calling the shots
all along... God or the Devil,
good or evil, know this: the world is as it is
this is what the Sufi master knew all along – the world is as it is
the world is perfect: appreciate the details

Khristó-phoros

Bearer of the anointed one
Collector of optical disks
The way of the man
The way of a man
is – to be an archivist,
a collector
of optical disks, a bearer
of good tidings
a collector, an archivist,
he who bears, and collects,
and creates
A bearer, a collector, and a
writer
of good tidings
Srećan rođendan, tanti auguri,
all the best!

Cum dubito desisto

Honni soit qui mal y pense !
But... cum dubito desisto!
This is my motto
In my room
Listening to the funk
Writing a poem
That no one
Will ever read
Honni soit qui mal y pense !
This is my motto
and if you don't like it
don't read it!

O porno maluco do Joaquim Rădulescu

no sul do Brasil
um porno maluco
do Joaquim Rădulescu
nesse porno
no há
pessoas
peixes
o pássaros
nesse porno
há só
cores
é um porno
das cores
um porno
sem máscaras
sem estórias
sem histórias
um porno
sem pessoas.

Griekse IJ

Griekse IJ
een Griekse ij
een Griekse ei
een Griekse ÿ
een lange ij
een korte ei
of een i-grec
of ipsilon
of... veel eieren
een geheim in de pijp
in de middeleeuwen
i was y, en y was i
en later
ij was ÿ, en y was i (maar ei was niet ij, en ie was niet ij)
vandaag hebben we misschien te vele letters
(maar soms ook te weinig)

Ein griechisches Ei

Ein griechisches Ei
am Mythenquai
Ein langes Ei (oder ist es eher gerundet und kurz?)
im Klÿck
Ein kurzes Ei
oder i-grec
im Bärengraben
Ein fragendes Ypsilon
in Ieper (Ypern)
oder Ypers (Why-pers)
Ein Geheimnis in einer Pfeife
(e Ghäimnis in ere Pfyffe)
Früher war ij ÿ, und y war i
(Deshalb schreiben wir Mythenquai)
Heute haben wir oft zu viele Buchstaben
aber manchmal auch zu wenige.

Jota y yo

Una ardilla roja
el el norte
Una ardilla roja
en el sur
Soy un músico
trabajando y viajando
el el norte y en el sur
Estoy viajando
con mi tortuga
Soy un mariachi
mi voz es vida
Es por eso
que no tomo
Jota, por otra parte, toma
bebe güisqui y ron
Coca-Cola y ron
ron y Coca-Cola
Ahore vive en
Willow Springs
en el norte
mientras yo
vivo en la
Tierra de Fuego
con mi tortuga.