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FOUR POEMS
LUDVIG KÖHLER


AIRPORTS

Men with name signs waiting for you when you land.

Dad slips a $10 bribe to avoid the hassle at the check-in counter.

A well-worn copy of Roseanna and a small bag of potato chips.

A souvenir in Vienna, perhaps a fridge magnet or a coffee mug.

A plastic chessboard with Disney character pieces.

An unusually tall man in a kaftan, and a surgically altered woman amid the perfumes.

A case showing confiscated items from customs, with crocodile boots, Chinese drugs, luxury products and a stuffed armadillo.

Pictures of famous and successful Swedes.

Escalators and express foods in a very particular combo.

A man in a queue with a strange book that Mom thought was stolen.

A large group of bearded men with all their luggage inside the cabin and special meals.

A kind of sect walking barefoot and with numerous defects on fingers and toes.

A magician of sorts, impressing me with card tricks.

A seemingly never-ending moving walkway pushing me forward.



LIBRARY MAN

And he uses our computers

till we close

he always has a serious look on his face

usually working

editing fish-related pages on wikipedia

once in a while he goes to the restrooms

and drinks 3-4 cans of beer

which he throws into the trash can.



A NOTE I FOUND ON MY OLD FRIEND MATS' COMPUTER WHICH HE HAD WRITTEN FOR THE COMPUTER GUY

Sometimes nothing happens when I turn on the computer

Sometimes I get to see the blue HP-page

Sometimes I can go on but then it freezes for a while

Sometimes it makes a hell of a noise and then it works pretty well

short before it freezes

And something is wrong with my TV-card

because the picture has been lousy since the first day

So there might be something with the fan, the graphic card and the TV-card.

Call me if you have any questions

Kind regards

Mats Nyberg



THE SPIDER IN THE LIVING ROOM

The spider in the living room

walks like I would have

if I'd been a spider.

The fly in the kitchen

flies like I would have

if I'd been a fly in the kitchen.

The car on its way to the country house

runs like I would have

if I'd been a car.

The woods lie

like I would have

if I'd been the woods.

Even the computer in the office

stands there as we would have stood

if we'd been computers in the office.