Author: Dr. Stephan Pflaum

Gedicht (EN): The velvet seat is a soft coffin for the ego. Champagne bubbles are square and taste of rust and dividends. Look through the window: the proletariat is just a gray smear on the retina. My ticket costs a heart, but the legroom is infinite! The conductor is a… read more – weiterlesen Titel: Der traurige Passagier aus der 1. Klasse (EN: The Sad Passenger of First Class)

Gedicht (EN): The windshield is a mosaic of forbidden syllables. Pastel silence suffocates the engine’s roar. Blue shards cut the tongue of the passenger. Do not speak! The driver is a geometry of absolute power. We travel through a tunnel of pink noise and forgotten tickets. The destination is a… read more – weiterlesen Während der Fahrt nicht mit der Fahrerin sprechen (EN: Do Not Speak to the Driver While in Motion)

Gedicht (EN): The concrete blossoms in the gray matter of the satellite town. Cogito, ergo U-Bahn. The U5 train screeches a lullaby of steel and Döner grease. Thoughts are trapped in black cages of lead, screaming for an exit. She ponders the metaphysics of the ticket machine. Blue melancholy drips… read more – weiterlesen Die Denkerin von Neuperlach-Süd (EN: The Thinker of Neuperlach-South)

Gedicht (EN): The algorithm demands a face, but I offer a snout. Blue static washes over the digital trough. Click, upload, validate the bacon! My left eye scans the server for a soul, finding only cookies. I am a JPEG of flesh in a cloud of slaughter. Swipe right for… read more – weiterlesen Profile Pigture (EN: Profile Pig-ture / The Swine’s Avatar)

Gedicht (EN): The church bells toll, but they ring for the roast, not the soul. Sunday is a swirling vortex of holy ham and purple boredom. The snout rotates like a pious mandala on the wall of a butcher shop. Hallelujah! The bristles are singing a hymn of grease. We… read more – weiterlesen Sonntags Pigture (EN: Sunday Pigture)

Gedicht (EN): The sinuses are a bureaucratic labyrinth of magenta pain. A sneeze? No, a revolution of green slime against the purple state! The virus wears a velvet coat and smokes a cigar in the frontal lobe. Drip, drop, the logic flows out of the nostril. Fever is the only… read more – weiterlesen Der allzu bunte Schnupfen mit laufender Nase (EN: The All-Too-Colorful Cold with a Runny Nose)

Gedicht (EN): Chromasnout spirals into the void of Monday morning. Pink ache brushes against turquoise terror. The eye is a smudge of indigo deceit. Oink, says the canvas, bleeding acrylic anxiety. A whirlwind of bacon grease and broken spectrums. We are all just meat waiting for the right shade of… read more – weiterlesen Titel: Pigmentiertes Pig (EN: Pigmented Pig)

These hashtags celebrate this picture / Diese Hashtags feiern das Bild: #CubistRogue #ColorAnarchy #GeometricTrickster #LaissezFaireAesthetics #AngularMischief #Dada #Art #Kunst DADA EN Purple refused to follow instructions and became a suit. The face, assembled by committee, held its angles like a politician holds promises—loosely, with flair. Orange, appointed treasurer, embezzled itself… read more – weiterlesen Laissez-Faire Filou

These hashtags celebrate this picture / Diese Hashtags feiern das Bild: #LaughterAsymmetry #ColoredCruelty #FacialGeometry #SocialMasks #VibrantHumiliation #Dada #Art #Kunst DADA EN Pink declared herself the clever one, allocated orange to the other’s cheeks as punishment. The laughter lives in turquoise semicircles, smugness distributed equally across both faces like a democracy… read more – weiterlesen The Clever Laughing One and the One Laughed At Without Being Asked / Die Kluge lachende und die ungefragt Belachte

These hashtags celebrate this picture / Diese Hashtags feiern das Bild: #BarStoolPhilosophy #ColorfulCollapse #GeometricIntoxication #AbstractSeating #VibrantChaos #Dada #Art #Kunst DADA EN The pink triangle insisted it was not drunk. The yellow quadrangle remembered being a man once, before the colors voted to dissolve all vertical ambitions. Blue filed a complaint:… read more – weiterlesen Another Man on a Bar Stool / Ein weiterer Mann auf Barstuhl

These hashtags celebrate this picture / Diese Hashtags feiern das Bild: #BavarianCubism #ColoredSolitude #FragmentedThirst #GeometricLoneliness #BeerHallAbstraction #Dada #Art #Kunst DADA EN The man held his beer like a question he’d forgotten how to ask. His face belonged to three separate evenings, each one disagreeing about the color of regret. Pink… read more – weiterlesen The Man at the Bar with a Beer Stein / Der Mann an der Bar mit einem Humpen Bier

These hashtags celebrate this picture / Diese Hashtags feiern das Bild: #MunichTransitChaos #UrbanFragmentation #ColoredCommuters #GeometricCrowds #MaxWeberMoment #Dada #Art #Kunst DADA EN At Max Weber Platz, the bodies forgot their borders. A man in turquoise walked through a woman in violet— neither apologized. The platform hummed in yellow, the S6 to… read more – weiterlesen The Hustle at Max Weber Platz / Das Getümmel am Max Weber Platz