hide-&-seek with osama

Osama likes to close windows.

When it rains outside

he shuts them tight.

He keeps the sun in a bottle

under his bed.

This is the time

he pulls out the cork.

He lets his prisoner slam

its body on wooden shutters.

When it snows, Osama

shuts the windows even tighter.

Two rows of hinges

buckle into the world,

rust until spring.

Osama is a weather-wise-man.

Heís got his private sun

and nothing can harm him.

He knows the advantages

of being at home.