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Zywa Mar 2023
Attentively
humans have created
problems, throwing one after another
into the empty foreworld

They lacked norms, invented them
and were content with all the virtues
and vices to live from day to day
and also at night

They wanted to control everything
and created gods and leaders
with power, to be cruel
without strife in their hearts

The leaders organized it
with secret police and militia
with torture and contempt
and the people agreed to it

It became evening and morning
the morning of the fourth world
of the taboos and the dreams
of elusiveness and afterlife

Anyone and anything can be dangerous
be careful who and what you touch
also with roommates, neighbours, friends
dear colleagues and nice people

Better keep in touch virtually
just let the machines work together
because for us in the fifth world
it could be fatal
Collection "Secrets & Believers"
Zywa Feb 2023
I exist! Me too!

And I! Here! I exist here! --


And I? Who hears me?
"Atlas Eclipticalis" ("Atlas of the apparent path of the sun", 1961-1962, John Cage), performed by Ensemble SPECTRA in the Organpark on January 15th, 2023

Collection "org anp ark" #265
Zywa Feb 2023
Duties fascinate

me, but when they're done I know --


they don't mean too much.
"Het Bureau - Het A.P. Beerta-Instituut" ("The Office - The A.P. Beerta-Institute", 1998, Han Voskuil), page 916

Collection "Not too bad [1974-1989]"
Zywa Feb 2023
The plants will show you

where it is passable here:


the Questioning Bog.
Raised bog near the village of Vragender (Interrogative, Questioning) in the Achterhoek (Rear-corner), near Winterswijk

Sphagnum floats on the meters deep water, and it waves when you walk on it

"Het Bureau - Het A.P. Beerta-Instituut" ("The Office - The A.P. Beerta-Institute", 1998, Han Voskuil), page 931-932

Collection "Not too bad [1974-1989]"
Zywa Jan 2023
They look at me, what

did I say?, I thought I heard --


someone else speaking.
Collection "Foghorn"
Zywa Jan 2023
I enjoy writing

tear-off calendar poems --


The same every year.
Rereading deepens understanding

Collection "New Ago"
anotherdream Dec 2022
You said we'd leave this place
But it's all over now
Everybody's gone for work
I'm still stuck in this small town

You left for work that morning
The day that I made coffee
There was something in your eyes
That began to make me worry

You walked out the door
Like I was nothing anymore
I held onto you so tightly
You eventually pulled the cord

Was there nothing at all
That made you want to call?
I memorized your number
For when you'd have time in the fall

But once a year had passed
I realized she was never coming back
Her only desire was attention
But I cannot give
What I do not have.
I cannot give what I do not have...
Zywa Dec 2022
Unexpected things

never startle me, I just --


respond too slowly.
"Het Bureau - Plankton" ("The Office - Plankton", 1997, Han Voskuil)

Collection "Not too bad [1974-1989]"
Zywa Nov 2022
She visits my house,

and I am a guide who learns --


what things are special.
"Farah Mills" (2017, Ivo Victoria)

Collection "(Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s and 10s"
Zywa Oct 2022
Live an eternal

present, or learn your lessons --


time and time again.
"Heer Bommel en het nieuwe denken" ("Sir Bumble and the new thinking", 1966, Marten Toonder)

Collection "Bearer Toonder"
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