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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