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Zywa Mar 7
Is thinking ahead

..a Pleasure Dome
..in which you know that
..he will take a shower and then
..you know by the smell of his musk
..what awaits you?

....the art of stumbling in such a way
....that a competitor comes to your aid
....and moving along with your apparent fall
....is crushed by an inconspicuous push
....after which you whine
....about his undeserved end?

......depleting the earth
......by colonizing mineral
......resources and that everyone
......puts together a survival kit
......for all conceivable disasters?

........the Dark Palace of the question
........of how you want to die, not now
........but later with you or rather
........alone with a black pill
........against unbearable suffering
........or a hopeless existence?

Or is it too tiring?
Topspot is a palindrome

Collection "Lilith's Powers" #19
Zywa Mar 7
Prometheus thinks ahead.
I too work according to plan.
I think:

I consider the possibilities.
I am critical of my own plans.
I have patience in executing a plan.
Collection "Lilith's Powers" #19
Zywa May 2024
The guests run away,

the staff is left with the feast --


left with the rumours.
Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter Boonyi, § 1

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Mar 2024
Better not to count

on society or God --


Provide for supplies.
Novel "Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights" (which is 1001 nights, 2015, Salman Rushdie), chapter 2 "Mr Geronimo"

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Jul 2023
I prepare myself:

I keep fighting with myself --


to stay on my toes.
Novel "The PowerBook" (2000, Jeanette Winterson), chapter "NEW DOCUMENT"

Collection "Actively Passive"
Zywa Dec 2022
The year-end question:

How stupid will I be, with --


the majority?
"We zijn koeien" ("We are cows", 2022, Marcel van Roosmalen)

Collection "Actively Passive"
Zywa Oct 2022
Salt in the coolant,

cod-liver oil in the oil:


winter-ready car!
"Tom Poes en de grote Barribal" ("Tom **** and the Mighty Barribal", 1965-1966, Marten Toonder)

Collection "Bearer Toonder"

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