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Zywa Jul 2024
Not the way it is,

only the way it happens –


my life is okay.
Autobiographical account "De harde kern" - 1 ("The *******" - 1, 1966, Frida Vogels) and "Diary 1966-1967" (2009) - May 15th, 1966 in Blaricum

Collection "Trench Walking"
Zywa Jun 2024
The joyful crowd throws

me into his arms, we laugh --


and then I lose him.
Song "La foule" ("The crowd", 1958, Michel Rivgauche, sung by Édith Piaf, music Ángel Cabral, 1936: the Peruvian waltz "Que nadie sepa mi sufrir" ["Let no one know my suffering"], text Enrique Dizeo)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 40s and 50s"
Zywa Jun 2024
You'll live long enough

to celebrate successes --


and suffer failures.
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar >> Bisnaga] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 1: Birth, chapter 1

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Mar 2024
The shadows are long,

I'm waiting, it's getting dark --


it's coming closer.
Song "Not Dark Yet" (1997, Bob Dylan, album "Time Out of Mind")

Collection "Great Stream"
Zywa Dec 2023
I just stopped writing

that diary of mine since --


it is never true.
"Grote acht" ("Big Eight" - route of two circles in dressage, 2005, Vrouwkje Tuinman), chapter [*] #12

Collection "Held/True"
Zywa Dec 2023
The tension is gone:

it's important, or it's not --


and now it comes out.
Novel "Perfecte stilte" ("Perfect silence", 2011, Thomas Verbogt), chapter A contrived thought

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
Zywa Dec 2023
I just see fragments

of my life, only too late --


I understand them.
Novel "Midnight's Children" (1981, Salman Rushdie), chapter 1-8 "Tick, tock"

Collection "Low gear [2]"
Zywa Dec 2023
Look at the people

around me to understand --


the course of my life.
Novel "Midnight's Children" (1981, Salman Rushdie), chapter 1-8 "Tick, tock"

Collection "Low gear [2]"
Zywa Nov 2023
I am an island,

I just have to wait and see --


if Love docks with me.
Novel "Sexing the cherry" (1989, Jeanette Winterson), chapter "1649" (Anno Domini 1649)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 80s and 90s"
Zywa Oct 2023
We are on the way,

and we know well: not one road --


leads to an end point.
"On the Road" - "The Original Scroll" (1951, Jack Kerouac), about his activities in 1947-1950, published in 1957/2007, chapter Book Four; Neal Cassidy

Collection "MistI"
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