Are you alone?

Eiswand - Icewall 100 x 80 cm mixed media (acryl/oil/oil pastel/coffee) on canvas by Karin Goeppert

TOTAL DOUCHE BAG SOUGHT, REFERENCES UNNECESSARY

She’s looking for someone with hair, a large

tanned expanse of carpeted muscle. Add to that   

an offhand sadism, a weakness for exotic weaponry, should be    

a subtle cheat in games of chance and skill,

but no conscience in the Shakespearean

sense, no consciousness, which supposedly makes

cowards of us all, only a mechanical perfection required;

should speak a few languages, and have

an elegant, almost hypnotically persuasive way

with high level personnel in Mexican resorts,

the lowly also known to smile, if grudgingly, out of fear

because he makes everyone feel a little uncomfortable.

He would say: If it works, do it: If I do it, it works.

Marcel Proust peering through a keyhole. Millions clicking

their mouse. Fast forward, says Mistuh Kurtz, it don’t mean nuthin.