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Zywa Oct 31
Politicians drift,

because The Majority --


doesn't know what they want.
Novel "Requiem voor een vriend" ("Requiem for a friend", 2002, Han Voskuil), chapter 1951-1956, August 7th, 1954 - Amsterdam, Han Voskuil and Jan Bruggeman ('Breugelman')

Collection "Not too bad"
Zywa Jul 9
Before I can take

off my hat, I have to wait --


for a good moment.
Play "Happy Days" (1961, Samuel Beckett), played by Antoinette Jelgersma on April 18th, 2023, in Frascati (director Erik Whien)

Collection "Stall"
Zywa Mar 17
Waiting is living

half, putting deeds off, looking --


in front of oneself.
Collection "Webgarden"
Zywa Feb 2
We don't do any-

thing, we avoid rejection --


avoid rapprochement.
Novel "jl." ("recently" - the title also refers to Juno Linnaarts, 2016, Anjet Daanje), chapter November 11th, 1989

Collection "Actively Passive"
Zywa Aug 2023
I keep staring at

the many Maybe Islands --


Will I live somewhere?
Novel "The Stone Gods" (2007, Jeanette Winterson), chapter "PLANET BLUE"

Collection "Actively Passive"
Zywa Aug 2023
How should I console

with the little cuckoo clock --


ticking in my head?
"The Queen of the Tambourine" (1991, Jane Gardam), § May 1st (1990)

Collection "Actively Passive"
Zywa Jun 2023
I think about it

all day, so actually --


I'm practising hard!
Reluctance (for example to exercises on the piano)

Novel "Kind tussen vier vrouwen" ("Child between four women", 1972, Simon Vestdijk, written in 1933), § 4, page 166

Collection "Inmost"
Zywa May 2023
With the proceeds he bought the bank
the water company and computer halls
Modern Monopoly. He invested
in advanced filters and the internet

With a wink he kept his title
'Landlord'. Ah, the good old days
Now we are the owners, we pay
the subscriptions and pay off our debt

Things are going well, fewer members
are active, there is talk on the sidelines
and self-interested owners
collect proxies

The administrator acts
opportunistically and follows
the outside world
There is a call

for another system:
with so little involvement
a transfer of power will do -
blank until business is done
Democratic decision tot delegate executive, legislative, and judicial powers to one person of group of super-rich

Landlord / Corps noble (noble body), Corps social (social body) / Aristocracy, Oligarchy

Association of Homeowners / Corps législatif (legislative body) / Democracy

Delegate / Corps commun (communal body) / Populist totalitarianism (Ochlocracy)

Collection "The drama"
Zywa May 2023
Forgive me
I don't want to explain away
the fact that I needed time

to put the consequences
of one or the other
together

The appearances may be against me
but I didn't hold aloof
really, I never wait and see

I don't look away
I just look thoroughly
for a well-considered decision

because so much is happening
and often there is no clear line
in all the details

And I don't want to do anything wrong
That is the seed
of my passivity

My aversion to misdeeds
Evill Will: Passivity (out of aversion to misdeeds)

About misdeeds: poem "Evill Intent" (see May 17th)
Zywa Apr 2023
Today was a draft,

but tomorrow I will start --


a fresh piece of life.
"Tri sestry" ("Three Sisters", 1901, Anton Tchechov)

Collection "Shelter"
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