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Book of poems: Tom & the Thumbscrews
Interalter
A mysterious poem about escaping the inescapable
Apparently the Germans will
laugh at anything. They
will laugh a lot at lots of things that
don’t appear to be particularly funny to
the rest of us, unless, that is, we
non-Germans are missing something
quite important. Germans will laugh
at someone opening a fridge. Or at a dog
scratching itself. Or at the look of
a house. Or at a bag of shopping being
placed on a table. Perhaps it’s
a German quirk, laughing at
the not very funny. I had a German guy
working for me, so I know all about
this not-funny-funny first hand. Maybe
they keep themselves happy
by laughing. Hard to know
what to make of it.
Hard to know.
Anyway, to shift the topic
ever so slightly sideways a tiny bit:
round about Christmastime every year — that
is, as spent by me in one particular dosshouse I
used to live…
