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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"
Zywa Sep 2022
Today I shall do

nothing, not like yesterday --


no, differently.
"- Wat ga je vandaag eens doen? - Niets" ("- What are you going to do today? - Nothing", 1993, Herman de Coninck)

Collection "Shortages"
Zywa Jul 2022
I never go far

in my yard, I'm too afraid --


that I will get tired.
"The introduction - Faxing to Ger #1", May 2nd, 1997 (2017, Nicolien Mizee)

Collection "Out of place"
Zywa Apr 2022
An automatic

contract extension is ease --


instead of reason.
Conservatism

Collection "Half The Work"
Zywa Jun 2021
The winners just wait

quietly in the forefront –


The future will come.
Diary August 29th, 1957 (2005, Frida Vogels)

Collection "Trench Walking"
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