Selected Quarantine Poems
QUARANTINE POEMS Paul Klemperer (c) 2020 He watched the insects in their short-lived dance Their measured allotment of energy Which gave them just enough time To eat, to mate, to…
That Feeling
That Feeling Paul Klemperer (c) 2021 You know that feeling when you’ve just fallen in love? Maybe it’s just a crush or maybe it’s something that will last forever, you…
The Garden at the End of the World
The Garden At The End Of The World Paul Klemperer (c) 2012 I. His world ended quickly enough but the knowledge of it was longer in coming. Returning from the…
At the Bridge
At The Bridge - Excerpt Paul Klemperer (c) 2021 To join the Tribe I had to be willing to accept certain challenges. At first they were simple acts, at once…
News From The Alternate Universe #1
News From The Alternate Universe. (Inspired by The New Yorker, 6/8/11) Representative Anthony Weiner, the subject of controversy over his "underpants" pictures, held a press conference today in which he…
Music As Fiction
by Paul Klemperer Philosophically speaking, all art is fiction. And if fiction can be broadly defined as a creation of the imagination, then art, in all of its forms, can…