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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"
Zywa Apr 2023
Reality flows

out of the war camp, between --


dream and welfare work.
Novel "The time of the angels" (1966, Iris Murdoch), § 5

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Apr 2023
Nothing is beyond

my reach, since detached I don't --


reach for anything.
Novel "The time of the angels" (1966, Iris Murdoch), § 5
Variant:
Everything's beyond
my reach, since detached I don't --
reach for anything.

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Feb 2023
Between a problem

and my actual action --


lies a nowhereland.
Column "Wees geen eikel" ("Don't be a loaf", 2023, Ellen Deckwitz)

Nowhereland: Limbo, after: Limbus puerorum = Antechamber of heaven for unbaptised infants

Collection "Actively Passive"
Zywa Nov 2022
There's always something,

something that is in my way --


even if it's me.
#168 "Sir Bumble makes complete" / "The completion" (1981, Marten Toonder)

Collection "Bearer Toonder"
Zywa Oct 2022
Stop it! Stop your talks!

Or do you want me to think --


and make a mistake?
#114 "Heer Bommel en het nieuwe denken" (#114 "Sir Bumble and the new thinking", 1966, Marten Toonder)

Collection "Bearer Toonder"
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