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lousy weather and Elmo's in Durham

notes on a soaking wet envelope

It is raining outside crotchety. The city with
the amputated arms
Can not roll up his trouser legs.
The water lies on the lawn.
some point there's only way home.

But I'm alone in my dinner.
The vegetables are today depends,
The soup of the day is fate.
The bill is the same with the food, as it would
tooth for a tooth. Outside

me soon passes the recalcitrance. The wet
next traffic light make himself important.
The cyclist believes he would have a chance.
I agree to a chorus,
only internally, of course, and urge

That will be all better tomorrow.


Christophe Fricker has from 2006 2010 in Durham, North Carolina, lived and taught German. Elmo's was his favorite restaurant. His poems "The beautiful eyes of the beholder" was published in 2008 in the publishing house J. Franck in Berlin. Fricker's book appeared in 2009, "Larkin Terminal", a collection of 12 portraits of people and places on different continents. Christophe Fricker launched in January 2011 in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a poetry workshop for students of Germanistik.