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Sex Tunnelbana Hallplatser

Mariatorget
Two nice looking birds
with two muppets
like Abba and then

Zinkensdamn
one nice looking bird
with two muppets.

Hornstull
One nice looking bird
with a guy who
sounds like a muppet.

Liljeholmen
Three muppets and no
nice looking birds

Aspudden
then no birds at all,
nor any muppets.

Örnsberg
Finally, a nice looking bird
with no muppets,
unless you count me.

Four Seasons in Two Minutes

The presence of a banana
seems to instantly bring
on summer’s beaming face

just as instantly angry autumn
arrives with the crop’s last bite,
there is the tiniest gap,

this is early October,
while fresh supplies are expected
then hoped for and when

disappointment is confirmed,
at the season’s end, the dark
clouds of winter scud in.

These are angry clouds, noisy
and wet, but spring arrives
in the middle of a winter storm

as she catches my eye and notes
I hold her stare unafraid
of her girnin or how she might

involve me in her problem;
curiosity trumping anger.
Spring’s uncertain clouds part

revealing summer’s bright smile
again, which returned, naturally
creates a lovely June evening

between us, the gloaming
lasting between stops
and still present in gold

as the door closes leaving
me on the platform and her
on the train with autumn

imminent as it moves away.

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