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290 · Apr 2019
Bekaf
Daan Apr 2019
Donkere sneeuw valt op en in
jouw hoofd.
Als ik het twee maanden
geleden had voorspeld,
had niemand me geloofd.
Het is een soort die niet smelt,
ophoopt en je geest verdooft.
Hij blijft maar vallen,
soms wat meer, soms wat minder.
We zien dat aan jouw wallen.
Toch ondervinden wij
in steeds grotere mate hinder
en vragen we ons af:
'Wat vind jij?'
Kan je het nog dragen?
290 · Mar 2014
Who am I ?
Daan Mar 2014
Love can not be analyzed, uncontrollable
desires to do so, instead of the right needs.
My disabled subconsience fails and feeds
when he reads or tries to. The top was

reached and I did nothing, waiting for
the fall, this is how I reached the bottom,
now I'm careless of it all.
I wish I was, really.
stop searching for the answer and enjoy this question
289 · Jun 2022
Geldingsdrang
Daan Jun 2022
Na ethisch overweg,
overleggen met mijn ik,
zie ik enkel het besluit te moeten
retourneren.

Stappen terug na te snel vooruit.
Eventjes 40 waar je 50 mag.
Voorzichtig.

Er komt zoveel bij kijken,
beloning, straf en langzaamaan bezwijken aan hogere macht,
wanneer je stilaan gaat geloven
dat je nog slimmer bent
dan je zelfs al dacht.
En dat kan natuurlijk niet.

Wees bewust van je gebreken.
En lees je boeken na.
289 · Jan 2017
Swept
Daan Jan 2017
Clean as chalk parts on the ground
wiped away without a sound
except the crunching friction,
both our minds indulged in fiction.
engulfed by cities far away
farewell we say.

Clear as the board we used to write on,
used a light on to finally agree
the books I've written
were only chapters, smitten,
sitting on hold.

Whenever you're cold
whenever you feel misunderstood
you'll feel good we parted
and a little less broken hearted
every time you're in that mood.

You were right, my mind is free
I'm so very glad we finally agree.
Burdens made place for lessons
lessons paved the way to something greater
balance
289 · Apr 2019
Honderd
Daan Apr 2019
Uitgezonderd honderd verschillen
van mening die een cent
van waarde zouden willen
dragen zonder dat jij ze kent,
heb ik je altijd lief gehad.

Bijna volgt het jubilee,
bijna tijd voor twee,
bijna morgen, bijna Parijs,
bijna zonder wolkengrijs.

Ik raap je op en neem je mee
als broze schelpjes van de zee.
Wat heb ik geluk dat jij er bent.
Je houdt me recht en kost geen cent.
Samen ouder, samen oud
al die jaren vieren wij
omgeven door het goud.
288 · Sep 2014
The blame
Daan Sep 2014
The conversation is different
I would have told you anything,
some of the words, they sting
you seem more indifferent

You did this.
287 · Jan 2016
Control
Daan Jan 2016
Her eyes were shaking, pushing out
the salty fluid, gliding down across her mouth.
Her knees were trembling, trying to control
the mixed emotions, emerging in her soul.

She was losing it, I couldn't watch, bear her state
of being crushed. I rushed closer, held her tight.
Even though I knew in different ways too late
I felt she deserved more than just one night.

As pretty as she was, as loving and friendly, as so
she was not accepting what I knew she understood.
Deeply do I respect, deeply do I crave to
go back and change something. If I could.

I wouldn't have made it go away,
I would have wished I had different things to say.
What is not, should not be forced.
And by being incapable myself,
I caused inconsistency in thought.
Forgive me.
287 · Dec 2018
Project
Daan Dec 2018
Onder onze vleugels,
ik neem je mee naar huis
zachte schokjes aan de teugels,
maar altijd welkom thuis.

Ik ruim jouw rommel op,
roep regelmatig stop,
toch kan ik niet zonder,
mijn lieve levenswonder.

Door je eigen vleugels gedragen
vlieg je door mijn levensboek.
Ik durf het zelf haast niet te vragen,
wanneer kom je nog eens op bezoek?
Ik zal je missen tot je terug bent.
286 · Apr 2015
The truth
Daan Apr 2015
I don't know what I want, really
nearly every option seems to pale
I do know it's not yours to say
nearly every time I edge to fail
that I should settle for less
because I've got nothing much to impress.

I'd rather keep moving.
286 · Feb 2017
Lose it
Daan Feb 2017
She handed me life in a glass of wine,
I took a sip, gave it a try
as if I fired my personal spy
and everything seemed fine.

It took a while to take the time,
stand still, think and fill
the glass right up again,
it's nice to loosen up
I think next time
I'll drink
it will be from a larger cup.
let your expectations float
let them live alongside each other
you'll see them bother
you less and less.
286 · May 2019
Leven
Daan May 2019
Via leven, ene van de velen,
monden, stemmen, kelen
door elkaar te weven
in een wirwar boel Berlijn
en wenen, dankzij diegenen
die nog altijd zijn,
nog altijd lachen, stralen
daar blijf ik het geven halen.

Da's waardoor en om
ik 's ochtends uit mijn bedje kom,
gedreven, mijn pantoffels kus
met jus d'orange en bonjour zeg,
goedemorgen in het Frans.
286 · Sep 2014
colours
Daan Sep 2014
Orange and green were melting
together, seen almost as a pelting
of connections, flooding like
paint, mixing, touching, unlike

what green had thought,
two colours already made of
combinations, don't blend
don't spend
time
when orange has chosen
to follow instead of make
her own
way
Now I'm a bit blue (partly yellow)
285 · Oct 2019
Waterkoker
Daan Oct 2019
Ik laat me liever dragen,
dan kan ik kijken in het rond,
ik laat me graag vervoeren,
stamp geen dagen uit de grond.

Het mag vanzelf komen, allemaal.
Ik stroom wel mee of vaar of kolk
naar waar dan ook ik word geleid
ongeacht of ik ben voorbereid.

Het liefst laat ik je doen, de anderen kijken
naar wat ik met mezelf kan bereiken.
En zelf zie ik wel waar ik uiteindelijk aanbeland.
285 · May 2015
Hauntingly beautiful
Daan May 2015
Her skin was showing blue and red
Her head was marked by a mark of the dead

She giggled a fake and horrible sound
Her body was nothing but suddenly bound

She took off her dress slowly but sure
Producing a sight no mere man could endure

Her ways were always like this
Impressing with grace and killing

with a kiss
Women...
285 · May 2019
Afstandelijk
Daan May 2019
Schommel, wip, een touw aan banden,
als ik spring, mag ik dan
naast jou landen,
kan jij mij dan toevertrouwen
dat ik dichterbij de gauwe
afschriften mag zien
en voelen
of dit nu is wat ze bedoelen
als ze zeggen, liften
gaan niet heen en weer
en wij gaan al een tijdje
niet meer op en neer.
Da's klote.
284 · May 2014
I'm dying slowly
Daan May 2014
I wish I did not have to tell you what to do.
I need someone who does those things without asking.
I wish I had someone like you, who loved me.
I need someone to actually love me.
Appreciate me, please.
I'm breaking down on the inside.
283 · May 2019
Depressionant
Daan May 2019
Ik heb je nodig om te leven,
niet nog voor het opstaan
op te geven.
Mijn hormonenspiegel
weerkaatst indrukwekkend weinig licht,
terwijl de schaal een gebrek kent
aan lichaamsgewicht.
Mede wegens die problemen
moet ik je elke dag toedienen.
Ik heb een passionele haat
voor het opnemen in overmaat
van serotonine.
Impressie - Kan je echt niet zonder?
283 · Jun 2019
MS walvis
Daan Jun 2019
Ik kom aangestormd,
let niet echt op *** hard ik raak,
hou de boodschap onvervormd,
een revolutie in de maak.

Mijn woorden willen breken,
taboe, stigma, ik wil erover spreken.
Het is namelijk gebleken
dat Vlaanderen de geest heeft
en gegeven, een achterhaalde zeit,
omtrent mentale, oei, u niest,
GEZONDHEID!
Fijn dat u het opmerkt.
283 · Jul 2021
Mega fobie
Daan Jul 2021
Als ik iemand anders had willen zijn,
moest ik al de rest erbij nemen.
Van het grote lege magazijn
tot het alle ramen zemen.

Van de pijn van een gemiste jeugd,
verpeste liefde waar ik me nog zo
op had verheugd, tot de dagen
dat ik me zelf aan verpest zal wagen.

Zo erven wij van boven tot onder
en van zij tot zij, niet alleen de genen
alsook de wel of niet erg blij
en de neiging tot hypochonder.
Had je mama ook schrik van duiven?
Jammer.
282 · Jul 2021
Crisisinterventie
Daan Jul 2021
Staat de keuken onder, is de rommel
van de kelder, zo naar boven, de trap op
met gestommel, kan je het niet geloven
of wacht je op een wonder?

Druk op de ketel, potjes koken onder
je veren en bezeren je schorseneren.
Dan moet iemand crisis interveniëren.

Liever zwarte randjes op je brood
of je vleesje iets te rood?
We hebben niks te kiezen
zolang we onszelf maar niet verliezen
in de heisa van het leven,
het sudderen en beven
en beleven van tijd tot tijd
toch wel geen nieuwe crisis
omtrent die deksels indrukwekkende identieketeit.
Allemaal dezelfde en toch nog zo verschillend.
281 · Jun 2019
verzadigd
Daan Jun 2019
Zou ik je ook zo mooi vinden
als ik je al had? Ik heb hoogtevrees,
wil toch in het rad, lees
soms over blootstellingstherapie
ma bij mij werkt da nie
PFff
280 · May 2015
Dirt mountain
Daan May 2015
There's a mountain here of dirt.
It's so filthy and muddy it's kind of absurd.
I am king and I lead. I'm generous to agree,
the less they bleed the better my degree.

I'm a student god, handling the basic 'how to do's'
of this dirt mountain not a single ant would choose.
My land is forsaken and I have to save
the lives of the useless and those of the brave.

My teacher god is greater, I cannot contain,
the things he does, the power he has, rain
or drought, floods and quakes, how do I maintain
the lives of the many. I'm no divine clerk.
It feels pointless when he influences anything I do.
I think I need to resign. But if I stop my work,
how can I believe he did not do too.
278 · Feb 2015
Dropped
Daan Feb 2015
Broken glass, everywhere,
stepping with shoeless feet
crawling through to meet
the girl across and over there
the place where clean and neat
statues stand and dream.

Behold this world like no other,
enjoy the fruits and thank its mother.
You'll understand when the time is right.
278 · Mar 2019
Beleefd blijven
Daan Mar 2019
Je hebt het niet te kiezen.
Wat je allemaal kan verliezen,
zou je nog verbazen.
Vanzelfsprekend op elkaar lijken
die zaken die pas te prijken komen
wanneer je te grazen
bent genomen.
Of geleefd worden.
278 · Aug 2014
spill
Daan Aug 2014
Dear,
You crave telling what you did
because you craved doing one thing
wrong. Keeping it locked and off the grid.
Your voice is silent, your face does sing,
it shows to those who know you
that you know who
is hurt.
I too
expose the meanings of a flirt.

I am surrounded by listeners,
but fearing the response,
surrounded by a massive crowd
minus the ones who are allowed
to hear whatever happened to you,
my dear.
277 · Feb 2015
Your name
Daan Feb 2015
In eyes we trust but shouldn't.
Girls I thought that wouldn't
ever do such things in front of me.
The bell has rung, all in favour but one
must pay. If I don't remember you,
not even by the stripes printed on
your outfit. If my own camouflage
will hurt my image. Flowers will
grow on the grave of how we're ought to
behave.
277 · Jun 2019
Zorgen over morgen
Daan Jun 2019
Denk toch niet zo veel aan dan, Daan.
Denk maar aan de zon,
de schaapjes in het veld,
de vrienden die je telt,
de momenten die je won.

Denk maar aan het zachte bed
voor straks en aan muziek,
die liedjes die je luisterde met
je lieve naasten, je hechte kliek.

Denk maar aan dieren, bomen,
gras en rolmodelfiguren komen
vanzelf je netvlies op, stap
naar buiten, lach om de grap
van de pakjesman,
lach met de mop
van je kind.

Wees gewoon vandaag
de beste versie van jezelf,
wees lief en help waar nodig
en als dat niet lukt,
maak je niet zovele zorgen,
je mag het allemaal opnieuw proberen
morgen.
zijn zorgen voor morgen.
277 · Jan 2017
Timing
Daan Jan 2017
You're hired, start monday,
seize that day,
take it,
it's yours.

Off course, unmanned
no map, nothing planned,
no lookout, no captain,
no treasure.

Passing hours, passing notes,
wandering the sea
on different boats,
living the illusion you are free.

Let the waves carry you
let the tides, the moon and the wind
guide you away from the times you've sinned
only to return when true,
completely torn apart from value,
blue and red, steady,
don't let anyone knead,
wait until they've fled,
when you are ready.
I don't know anymore, man.
276 · Dec 2016
Impressive times
Daan Dec 2016
I hopped off without regret
things unknowingly were said
and my mind can't comprehend
why my thumb pressed send.

Closer, I get pushed away
farther, I get pulled back in
and every other day
one of us can get a win.

You're playing games, it seems
and your mind works in experienced teams.

Leave me be, I've seen enough
maybe I'll get back to it
when one of us returns less rough.
276 · May 2014
Wait until it's over
Daan May 2014
In pain, in vain, my body starts
to tingle. When there is not a single
choice of yours to all the seperate parts
of you, it takes some time to mingle

vanity with depression. Every session,
every lesson, to sit and watch, a born,
so very born, strong and wealthy obsession.
I should have ran and long ago torn

myself away. I wish to control my adoration,
I want to choose with whom I fall in love.
Rejected by those and reject the others, elation
is my second motive. If I had only shoven

her away from me, when I could. Being none,
it's worse than being nothing, doings undone.
Waiting it out. Not taking part in any of my decisions.
Made, by me, wrong, not me, even worse.
Curse
this,
her,
all,
me
274 · May 2015
The context
Daan May 2015
Do you remember what you said,
recall your words smacking my head.

The harsh and deeply felt are a purity.
Your love for me was personal security.
Where I ly and laugh and dare to be.
Without the context we would have been
happy.
274 · Jun 2014
Leave me
Daan Jun 2014
How can one give love without receiving
why does a part of me keep believing
you are perfect for me
Even when we're sure we'll never be

Is it the latching on to just have something,
instead of nothing
Is it because maybe this part is right
I worry and I stay awake at night

I think I'm sick
It is harsh when only
one is pained by this question
I don't know how long it wil stick
around

The part of me is wrong
If you don't want to hear me complain,
then leave me.
Because I am to weak to overcome
the part of me that does.
Do it right
Even if it's simple,
I am always afraid.
273 · Feb 2017
That smell
Daan Feb 2017
While drinking a beer on my roof
I saw a man on the other side
of this river on his balcony
set his cigarette to light.
I waved and asked him
about last night,
what are we doing
and why,
still awaiting his reply.

He went back in,
his favourite sin,
smoking with a grin
was now forbidden behind doors,
he had to come back out
again, to press his lips
and move the air
from lungs to fingertips.

How dare he be without defining,
how dare he deny the silver lining,
how could he act without any further thought
and throw away the things he just had bought.
(seemingly so eagerly)

I accepted friendship from this man.
As I took another sip from my can,
I knew that he could tell
when I noticed my own fingertip
that it was ridden with that smell.
Lose the black and white,
tell him goodbye tonight,
go inside
be alone, it just might
give you back your sight.
He'll come back if he wants to,
they always do.
273 · Apr 2019
Vervoering
Daan Apr 2019
Wanneer mijn kin mijn handpalm raakt,
mijn ogen sluiten en mijn tong
een vreugdkreet slaakt,
voel ik me weer jong
en heeft het pintje mij gesmaakt.
Verzot op zat
272 · May 2014
She said ...
Daan May 2014
She passed the second post it, using
a doctor to mark the pages of the confusing
book that touched me. And look,

she knows what's coming. I seem
sick, but in a good way, like a dream,
not like the people in the book.

She followed my directions, now
I play a waiting game, for thou.
She reads and reads, but doesn't cry.
Everyone has, so I don't know why.

I promise I'll try to help you feel,
but there is no try, there's only do.
I wish to be the one that turns it real,
I wish just once to make her say ooh.
271 · Dec 2016
I want to go back
Daan Dec 2016
I tried to let it go
when I heard your final no.
Somehow I ****** it all away
without you my life just seemed so grey.

I started missing you the moment you said bye
there's no need to keep stuff from each
other, or even worse, to lie.

This is not a class some people teach.
I know I went too fast for you,
when in ways I did not have a clue.

My lack of experience drove me to the ground
I want to hear your voice, it's sound.
270 · Mar 2019
De mol
Daan Mar 2019
Iemand heeft mij ondermijnd,
gangen gegraven en vijanden geseind.
De grond onder mijn voeten,
die stilaan verdwijnt, zal moeten houden
tot ik mijn gouden
eieren heb gelegd.
Terwijl ik lang geleden heb besproken
en geroepen
dat ik niet vruchtbaar ben.

Ik heb lang geleden en geroken
dat de wolken zijn gaan zakken.
Zo Danig dat ze nu rond mijn oren plakken.

Mijn hoofd wordt zo gedragen door die witte wollen wolken,
met mijn voetjes op de grond. Zonde dat zij voor mij
mijn willens niet vertolken. Zonde dat ik mezelf het niet heb durven vragen.
Het enige wat ik nog lijk te hebben,
lijk te kunnen,
is klagen.
Om in de grond te zakken
270 · Dec 2016
August
Daan Dec 2016
Three months time lapse
movies, parties, roofs and sleep,
all natural drugs collapse.

Effort and elation
loss of concentration
tumbling into my core

It could have worked, you know?
Our lack of patience goes to show
neither of us could take a blow.

It is now december
when I so fondly remember
how you came over without reason.

I sought validition
the one thing you refused to give
you've chosen, picked a different life to live.

You'll miss me too, you see
you'll regret it so so deeply.

Because no one else will ever
dare to care, blinded by their lust,
to accept the things they must
to make you actually feel loved.
269 · Apr 2014
He lives
Daan Apr 2014
Life is merely and not more than just a test,
every moment passing, a movement of this finger,
a judging sense has taken part and will not rest.
The turning doesn't hesitate, and oblivious linger,
neither do you wait for what the puffy whiteness
has to say, never experiencing with such lightness,
never do you happen to have time spared, sad,
cutting hours, like cutting carrots on a cutting pad.

Overflown with dodgy flower petals, bursting all around
and floating somewhere high above the ground, tall
as the emperor with his gowns and words profound.
separated from the sky and earth, in between, I call
your name and yell and see, I scream, no sound escapes
like gladiators fighting, whilst this emperor eats grapes,
Having to belong somewhere, to prove or show and hone,
it is just a test, regretting that he kicked the missing stone.

It fled and now it disappeard in moving gooey rings,
its fledding with a flash, though harmless, drenched, it clings
on what the surface was but now is drowning, sinking.
What on earth was told, what were you thinking,
believing things as love and hope. I do respect the way
you live and carelessly enjoy the lusts of life I say
are a toy for a kid who doesn't like to play.

His mother is ill, his life infected by the strings that once
connected, family, torn apart, like gowns and words,
his father lost at start, events, that cut the frayed cords.
He had to form, with love and comfort, an alliance,
but merged with loss and despair, care was never his
worry, hurry to the gutter, saved the stone, and bliss
was brought upon that kid, the stone was just a rock,
and all he had and ever would, a test in life to mock

his being.
269 · Sep 2014
The background
Daan Sep 2014
The face, it feels like home, tossing
eyes, gazing through the room,
connecting visions, wire crossing.

I saw you first, before others cared or noticed.

As if, one moment and the next,
as if you zoom in and all else fades
as if you consume my field of view, my eyes.
A part of me, small but somewhere, slowly dies,
slowly decides, it is not needed any
more.

My guard down, you won me with your stare
I am no longer able to not care.
One does not compare, when all he sees is all he wants.
A deeper kind of illumination
almost within, ways of temptation.
And the rest is background information.
I love that moment when your surroundings fail to grab your sight
that moment, when you know for sure,
she truly is
beautiful
269 · Apr 2019
Daar
Daan Apr 2019
Ik zoek een huisje in Parijs
voor het komende half jaar.
Het is een hele tijd op reis.
Misschien blijf ik wel daar.

Ik wil een open raam,
de Eiffeltoren zien,
het park en macarons kraam.
Als het meevalt, blijf ik zelfs, misschien.
268 · May 2017
Sanity
Daan May 2017
When it's late I scare myself.
I do things I don't want to do,
I am not myself,
I am things I don't want to be.

As I rush through pages, woods
in snow, as I go beyond
my idealistic views,
I creep up behind my back
and point out all the things I lack.

Discipline rejected me,
fears ejected the
tears you see upon the ruined sheets.

I wish I was more than some
unfortunate deeds.
Have regrets ever kept you awake?
Swallow, savour, spit, in any way
get over it some day.
I've been selfish.
268 · Feb 2017
Dry
Daan Feb 2017
Dry
Coping in interacted paragraphs,
forgetting how she laughs,
shrinking two sizes,
time buys us
revelations,
reasons for lost relations,
pathetic reasoning drove men crazy,
sour, winning by being lazy,
there, not in other places.

Depleted, deleted, not needed,
promises, changes, well pleaded.
All dried up
Thank god for spring
We met too early
we're all ok
267 · Apr 2019
Voorbarig
Daan Apr 2019
Voor het pillen slikken
of na een hele avond hikken
voor nu of voor later
wat ben ik toch dankbaar
voor drinkbaar water.
Beetje hoofdpijn.
267 · May 2019
Zwartgallig
Daan May 2019
Kan jij mij een nieuwe lever
geven? De mijne heb ik gefaald,
jarenlang gedronken als een bever,
mijn mosterd op café gehaald.

Ik ben geel van jaloezie, benijd
ieder die er niet aan lijdt.
Ik zucht en raak hysterisch.
Had ik me maar goed verzorgd
dan was ik nu niet icterisch
Het kalf verdronken.
266 · Aug 2015
Max
Daan Aug 2015
Max
Instantaneously it fell apart
as if there was no future from the start,
gone so fast it seemed unreal,
life and death had made a deal.

Your passage was too short, potentially
one of the greatest. Eventually still.
We'll have trouble defining what it is
we're missing. Your name is the only thing

that seems to fit.
Other words don't even come near the amount of meaning your name has left us with. Have a good one up there. Even though we only shared a couple of nights. Everyone still cares. I'd say cedric but it's just not right.
266 · Dec 2016
In my head
Daan Dec 2016
I need your attention
did I mention
I don't trust your intention
in a way, I can't say
I can't deny
that I get boring
I start planning
when you're snoring
when you're gone and I leave too
My mind seems occupied by you

I need redemption
need you to go
So I can think clearly
free
and be more than the me you see
right now.
Daan Dec 2018
Het goudgeel gerstenat verlaat mijn schouderblad
en sijpelt
lang
s
een lip naar
bingerstenatnen

in mijn keel
door mijn keel
achter de kiezen
even slikken
maar je concentratie niet verliezen
niet stikken
lippen af
likken.

Het was niet slecht, doe nog maar één.
Gegokt en verloren
265 · Jan 2017
Trades
Daan Jan 2017
I've made bets, I've done my wages,
locked my money in specific cages.
As it rages, as it's yelling to be freed,
I've worked out the raises that may lead
to what I need.

I've parked my car so often so soon,
I've tried to take pictures of the moon
in cities, in bars, on rooftops, on mars.

The plants are dead, the lights are dimmed,
the trees and hedges, carefully trimmed.
My garden is a place of finding
things, binding things, reminding
me every once in a while
how too much water killed the smile.

Other options seemed to pale,
I bailed my investment out of jail
as soon as I saw the rotten, rusty hinge,
stale enough to make me cringe.

When markets are inconsistent
and your growths may seem persistent,
take another look outside
to remember every time you've lied
to keep your dreams alive.
Take me to tompkins square park

Nightmares woke me up at night,
your soft words helped me sleep tight,
there is no wrong or right,
only knowing when things aren't worth the fight.
Be selfish sometimes.
265 · Feb 2014
left out
Daan Feb 2014
What is it coming to, when a village
can't have useless buildings, for how
long has it been tense and did she pillage
his time and attention, up until now.

It has passed the third beginning, close
to it's final end. Things he does not
decide himself go wrong, and a lot
goes wrong, the less he really knows

the better cause it hurts, every letter
every word in every sentence, makes
its way straight through his center, let her
be, let it all flow and pass instead of cutting

it out or tearing it loose, it's all decided, awakes
from a different dream, he starts shutting.
I want to be alone right now. Sleep for three days straight and wake up from this sick dream.
Wake up as me 7 years ago, happy with a bike and new games for some console nobody uses anymore.
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