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Zywa Aug 14
If your ambition

listens to wise words, then you --


only hear yourself.
Play "The Three Arrows" (1972, Iris Murdoch), Act Two, scene Two

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Feb 22
They are just shouting

back and forth, then continue --


mumbling to themselves.
Composition "2me Sonate" pour orgue, "Ce beau poisson d'amour qu'est Jésus mon sauveur" ("2nd Sonata" for *****, "This beautiful fish of love that is Jesus my saviour", 1956, Claude Ballif), performed by Jean-Luc Etienne in the Organpark on February 18th, 2024

Collection "org anp ark" #376
Zywa Jan 27
She performs her show,

spraying at the simpletons --


her tormented looks.
Novel "Buitenstaanders" ("Outsiders", 1983, Renate Dorrestein), § 3

Collection "Actively Passive"
Zywa Oct 2023
When terror is far

away, you can just remain --


on your pet subject.
Column "Leeg" ("Empty", 2023, Marcel van Roosmalen)

Collection "Stall"
Zywa Aug 2023
Life used to revolve

around us when we were young --


Today it still does.
"Het tankstation op de route" - 2 ("The filling station on the route" - 2, 2013, Jan Baeke)

Collection "Stall"
Zywa Oct 2022
Don't think of yourself!

Join me, you would never want --


me to go alone!
"Tom Poes en de grote Barribal" ("Tom **** and the Mighty Barribal", 1965-1966, Marten Toonder)

Collection "Bearer Toonder"
Zywa Dec 2020
Not the government

is oppressing us, but we –


our disunity.
“El general en su laberinto” (“The general in his labyrinth”, 1989, Gabriel García Márquez)

Collection "After the festivities"

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