6Oct 2021 Walter Ruhlmann

Dry Whiskey

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Heat was barely bearable even here that summer it was out of the question to put ice-cubes in the glasses. Unfathomable, how the south had chased us, surely we had... Read More
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Sweating out the hottest time when sublimation is not sublime. – mh clay

10Jul 2020 Walter Ruhlmann

Time to Escape

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For roughly two and a half hours life stops somehow, put in stand by, the existence between brackets - a necessary pause to confront all misery erupting like giant snakes... Read More
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What to do when overcome. – mh clay

2Jan 2020 Walter Ruhlmann

Europa

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A Mercedes registered in Sweden driven by a Russian oligarch; Olga high on coke and booze snoozes on the passenger seat. A violent Catalan separatist trysts with a Franco-nostalgic in... Read More
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We’re all we’ve got. Let’s figure it out… – mh clay

22Dec 2019 Walter Ruhlmann

Tannenbaum

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The view this room offers is an inescapable landscape, mountains covered with snow, walls at insurmountable height, icy peaks and green trees gently powdered with cotton dust, coating of icing... Read More
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“O Christmas Tree O Christmas Tree! Du kannst mir sehr gefallen!” With preservation techniques lacking, we like you once a year. – mh clay

20Jun 2019 Walter Ruhlmann

The Leveling Reaper

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If death comes earlier than expected, you’re sure you could easily handle it. You think this would free yourself from burden, you reckon extinction is the new thing. It will... Read More
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Fast or slow; she comes, but you never get to know her. – mh clay

1Feb 2019 Walter Ruhlmann

The Hole

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His obsessions could drive you mad,they make you feel useful and strongin the mid-November, warm, low sun,ants, flies, mosquitoes thrive. Your obsessions are heavy loadsthings you believe to be the... Read More
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Interior decoration with no innards. – mh clay

3Sep 2018 Walter Ruhlmann

The Suicidal Decadencies 1

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Monsters versus machines and horny atoms cities of straw blown off by the tempests of the serious and charcoaled hours. Sulphur drunk from the neck of the metal bottles and... Read More
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It’s another day in paradise. Buy more! Be happy! – mh clay

2Jul 2018 Walter Ruhlmann

Swapping Pronouns

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I dropped the /, borrowed the you. The / was loud, straight-forward. Its thinness, its lack of depth put me off. I felt dizzy, I feared its height, besides I... Read More
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Don’t mean to be an /, but YOU have something here. – mh clay

7Mar 2018 Walter Ruhlmann

Living with a Ghost

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This could somewhat be fun if only you wore a white sheet over your head. Hollow and pale, mute too, dim, dumb, numb, you keep transparent, spectral does not even... Read More
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Maybe can hold on till Spring, if not till the end of the world. – mh clay

13Aug 2017 Walter Ruhlmann

Nude in the Dune

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The sun strikes the sand, the skins – all unveiled, tanned. A black cap on an iridescent towel appears from the dune at the back of the beach, a yard... Read More
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No shame when all sneak the same peek. – mh clay