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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.
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