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Zywa Oct 2019
I'm fully fed up

with plans, it is unhealthy –


I'd better give birth.
Collection "New Ago"
Zywa 6d
Listlessly I push

myself on the campsite fence --


back and forth again.
Novel "Verborgen gebreken" ("Crying shame", 1996, Renate Dorrestein), part 1, chapter 3

Collection "Old sore"
Zywa Nov 2024
The gate has no bell,

no one opens when I knock --


It comes down to me.
Novel "O Diário de um Mago" ("The Pilgrimage", 1987, Paulo Coelho)

'The door had been open the whole time and I hadn't even had the courage to grab the handle.'

Collection "Within the walls"
Zywa Oct 2024
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 2024
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 2024
Waiting is living

half, putting deeds off, looking --


in front of oneself.
Collection "Webgarden"
Zywa Feb 2024
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"
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