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Zywa Oct 2024
Only when you're old

do you know: it doesn't matter --


if you're postponing.
Novel "Vreemde streken" ("Foreign places", 1985, Renate Dorrestein), chapter 2

Collection "Old sore"
Zywa Oct 2024
The children go play,

grandpa is drowsy, today --


No stories today.
Song "Opa", performance "Neerlands Hoop in Bange Dagen" (Song "Grandpa", performance "Hope of the Netherlands in Fearful Days", 1972, Freek de Jonge and Bram Vermeulen)

Collection "Mist-I"
Zywa Oct 2024
Where do I end up?

Didn't I steer well or am I --


being pushed away?
Performance "De vergrijzing", #6 van de serie "De vergrijzing" ("The ageing", #6 of the series "The ageing", 2004, Freek de Jonge)

Collection "Mist-I"
Zywa Oct 2024
He looks tired, a bit

tarnished already, but sweet --


Right to be coddled.
Novella "De ijsdragers" ("The ice bearers", 2002, Anna Enquist), chapter 1

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s"
Zywa Sep 2024
The old man watches

the bathing girl in the lake --


and the sun goes down.
Song 'Song of the Lake' (2024, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds) , album 'Wild God'

Collection 'Break'
Zywa Jun 2024
In the empty hall,

standing next to her suitcase --


mum waits, and she cries.
Retrospective "Autobiografie van een flat" ("Autobiography of an apartment", 2024, Otto de Kat)

Collection "After the festivities"
Zywa Apr 2024
He's vulnerable,

just look at the craquelure --


over grandpa's eyes.
Novel "Midnight's Children" (1981, Salman Rushdie), chapter 2-11 "Revelations"

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Mar 2024
The many years lived

make me crooked, I subside --


sink into my roots.
Novel "Spertyd" ("Deadline", 2017, Elsa Joubert), opening sentence

Collection "After the festivities"
Zywa Mar 2024
Characteristic

of old people's buildings is --


their name: Home of Loss.
Novel "Spertyd" ("Deadline", 2017, Elsa Joubert)

Collection "After the festivities"
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