Erling Okkenhaug © :
"LOOSE GENES"( From a book released in 1987 / drawings by Knut Anders Løken © - Translation by Ruth Johnson )

X) Stars
Some rotates
and some stand still
most of all
it's me that's clear
Daisy
The dress matches
but I shan't
fall in love anyway
Playground 1965
Sweet little one-way tickets
delivered by girlfriends
Mountain Crag
Silent grass...
Twisted pine
And white paint spots
Tango
How many can relax when they dance,
without to perform
Psychiatrist
I could have become a millionaire
on own-risk clauses
Impress
You in the yellow
Cindy Lauper skirt
with black Pepita waves
would you like to see the family tree
of one of my friends?
I had to paint abstracts as piece-work
X) Hunting news
"We are the world"
has become the smooching number
on the dance floor
there are people dying
All Right
Japanese women
in western design
Casanova
He had a perfect ear
for women
He held forth
for hours on
the most erogenous zones
X) Hypocrites
It's clever to use Jesus
as a reference
for one's own perfection
Salmon
The girls assess
each others
Cowes
Thin points of boats
with all Ascot's horses
and daddy's credit card
at the wheel
Berry Picking LTD
It's a high price to pay
when you set yourself
goals you can rech all the time
If you don't get this
your tried
Disco
Bye, bye love
and everyone danced
x) Self-centered
Out of your own navel
from 0-100 in 4.8 seconds
Graded
Not placed nice and tidily
in the ash-tray with the others
but thrown in the dirt with others
and trodden on
180
Top speed
in to/out of
the authorities files
Spotlights
Like mixmasters on bare boards
only disinherited bacilli...
X)Author
Manus depressive
Gooseberry
Is there an opening here
to be sad?
Eating crackling on christmas eve
Like putting your fingers flat on
the floor when doing th conga
Bridegroom
The forth time
the wedding cake
doesn't taste so bad
Wimbledon
Everyone participates free
syntetic
X) The poor
Those who fight their way into society
Steam
A dream of
an awakening
Attention
At the end of the worD
Bereaved
But Nelson disappeared
with his family tree
and picktures of his grandchildren
a sudden farewell
never mind
same boat
Hope
Summer light
is better for the ground
Bachelor
X) There are so many unattached genes
Theatre
The smallest common ultimatum
Real Fruits
I had to shake hands
to be friends
took hold of the poker
and looked down
Isme
She: What star sign are you
He: Actually, I collect stamps
X) Mousetrap
Men often get married
out of bad concience
Minor key
Suddenly the mothers had
daughters
Kremlin
Lead-free conduct
Where women must give way
careful gearing over to
nothing
Business
Interested
uninterested
single file
X) Hysterical Museum
There were so few boys there
that the girls sat near the hater
God
Beware of those who change their
money in the collecting plate
Snipe
The mother of the Spanish dwarf
had a double reason to be
mother
X) Jacobs moral
Do wasps know it hurts
when they sting?
The Star
A fly on the wall of his own life
Make up
His stomach was so big and heavy
that it
pulled out all
the wrinkles in his face
Patchwork crescendo
First Tom went with Brenda
Then Dick with Jenny
And me with the rubbish.
X) Greater London County Council
Radicals on safe ground
Globe
The photographer went to east Europe
to learn all
tones of grey
Creative Forum
Fighter pilots over
no-man's land
between pure and impure ideas
Stephanie, Brighton
The lights rotate
faster than
the hearts
Norwegian soap opera
In that house, the icicles hung
on the inside of the windows
X) View
There are plenty of chances here
if you're in the mood for women
Over Poland
The children play
in the aisle on the plane
the adults smile
at each others
apologetically
Cheque
No cover
go under cover
X) Dropped dead in the street
Spectators like frightened antilopes
at a kill in the savanna
Book title
Questions I would never
ask myself
Belief
Your credo -
your ego
Seminar
I reached out for
a drink
and the nice ones
who smiled
Womens liberation
Shoulderpads
X) Wings
Making for home
the lads flash
their motor cycles
at night instead
Pomp
I move slowly
towards my own heart
Modesty
You should not think
your worth something
said someone
but it isn't far
to the rubbish bin either
X) Moderation trend
As if it was the last thing we
should do
Quality
If it had been so important to listen
people would have had something
to say
Alter naiv
For my part, I have said
some good prayers
lately
Rupert Murdoch
Hundred pound notes
are pretty enough
Those of us who are a bit scared
take care of what hasn't been done
X) Tie
God created us in his image
and we return the compliment
Glossary
Simplicity's regatta
Camp for the handicapped
You throw boules
into a milieu
Engaged Tone
Can't promise to be
available any time
as I haven't really
made the most of
any time in the past
Contradictory
Poor you, - you preach
what you never dared practise
of others' enthusiasms
Muffins
3 Muffins with
my coffee
suspicious little cakes
at 10p each
X)Ascetism
Try not to be tempted
to fall into the
all to pleasant whirlpool
World Champion
Clap while you
drink a toast
and you spill
X) Comfort
There's nothing wrong
with being rustic if you come from
the biggest farm in the district
Norwegian samaritan
To the dying on the pavement:
It's my knees...
The angel
in the church
the font is
not really very aerodynamic
Bar
Cocktail cherries
for artificial fertilization
Bluff
Have you heard the bear
say brrm brrm?
The virgin Mary
She was a candelabra
of a person
X) Business letter
Do you write "dear"...
Friday
Kissing an intelligent girl
is hell
when she starts analysing
your tongue
Love
Diasappears when defined
X) My situation ith tho thpeyial
Circus ring
The canary shuts its eye
when strait-laced wife goes by
the sun shines on white man
Paris
French notepads
eat up ideas
Embarrassed
The ski-instructor brushes
even my thighs
when he pats hers
X) Spring
Must pay for each end every
exhilarating
hysterical joyful
exciting positive
and trembling
happy moment
with a down
Needle's eye
Man's greatest scourge
is the path of resistance
Rejection
So many
simple solutions
and you don't even
ask to be held
Threshold
Beginning after
brushing your teeth and emptying the rubbish
and cleaning the grey 60 watt bulb
Burst
They came together
through the hair
and permitted each other
everything
X) Dinner
The world does not need sensation
but love and the Sun
Deduction
Thought business
would be my saving
but then I got a sniff
of the old days
Maternity ward
All babies are the spitting image
X) Over 35
Either gently downhill
or hairpin bends
Peppermint
I pat your sholder
a gentle goodnight
I carefully
pat a warm
embrace
Schooldays
Teachers out for a duck
a look like litmus paper
Hairdresser
Thirty degrees glance upwards
big words from
small shadows
kind smile
X) Money and the church
Over directors carpets
barefoot in sand-dunes
going cap in hand to the bank
or stealing after the beauty
Morning
I am 360 degrees open
Birthday
The table for the presents
shouted break-even
God
I've lost the dialling tone
Advertising
Mammon with a smile
Soda water
All the answers
Slipped away
in an attempt
to be pleasant
X) Men build upwards with lego
women across
Alone
By a little
knot-hole
in the panelling
you and I
Senses
We sit here inspired
by a high standard
walled in in bad planning
Gnaw
The house I live in is a silo
and I am the harvest of 1951
X) The locks
It's som immoral that
the underground goes on rails in the air
Vaccination nerves
Not to be difficult, but
- James Brown and
Blackpool Tower
Luck
Just as hereditary as sterility
Pair of aces
Girls sleep
boys weep
Excuse
One of the stripes on your sweather
could have been more beige
Stern magazine
327 megawatts of nuclear power
in Niederrhein
and Grac Jones's decollectage
brought together
in new fusion
X) He who marries a dowry
ends up in powerty
Robinsonade
The word is reality's undertone
the picture is without colour
Waterproof
You are so deep
she said
and I swam strongly
upwards
towards Vera Lynn
All your life is important
for the rest of your life
X) The operasingers prayer
Oh Christ in top C
Sandpaper
Fiendish small grains
billions of pieces
broken off from Greek mountains
Art is no joke
The good lord would
have understood me
shaken His head and said:
One day you will learn
X) Architekt
Intention
Does not necessarily become
function
Chestnut
No-one notices how
anxiety....
chases trams up the street
Open air pool
At the deep end
12-year-old in flight
towards a reverse-image sky
Suburban apartment
On the stairs with
the mail-order cataloge
and the neighbour's smile
Desperate modern
So hungry for experiences
that we are only capable
of satisfying ourselves
X) Ronnie Scott's
Controlled cool
the point of the joint
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