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Zywa 1d
All things are still lives

in themselves, unpretentious --


what they are there for.
Novel "Het Bureau - Meneer Beerta" ("The Office - Mister Beerta", 1996, Han Voskuil), 1957 (page 33)

Collection "Not too bad"
Zywa 1d
The new Office is

growing, in the rear garden --


of the Head Office.
Novel "Het Bureau - Meneer Beerta" ("The Office - Mister Beerta", 1996, Han Voskuil), 1957 (pages 9, 33, 758)

Collection "Not too bad"
Zywa 1d
Is the snake rustling

behind me, that lay sleeping --


between the pine cones?
Poem "Beweging" - 1 ("Movement" - 1, 1992, Maria van Daalen)

Collection "Unseen"
Zywa 1d
So many taboos

there are, in modern countries --


people call them laws.
Column "Laat sommige taboes maar fijn bestaan" ("Let some taboos just remain", 2024, Josette Daemen), in the NRC of November 23rd, 2024

Collection "Unseen"
Zywa 3d
The wind is humming

low in the deep cave, it sings --


itself less lonely.
Composition "Boete", part 3: "Stoek" ("Penance", part 3: "Trac", 2023, Jan-Bas Bollen), for HyperTheremin and two organs, performed by Jan-Bas Bollen in the Organpark on March 22nd, 2025

Collection "org anp ARK" #105
Zywa 3d
Behind the rocks there

is something mysterious --


You'd better not look.
Composition "Erdia Da" ("Offering to Mother Earth"), #8 from the album "Pèkisyon Funebri" ("Funeral service", 2016, MMMD [Mohammad] = Ilios and Nikos Veliotis), performed in the Organpark on April 12th, 2025 by Ilios Veliotis (oscillators), Nikos Veliotis (electronic cello), and Alex Mastichiadis ('ALEM', *****)

Collection "org anp ARK" #108
Zywa 3d
We humans can want

a lot, but of our will we --


are not the master.
Arthur Schopenhauer on human will, in short from a passage in 'Die beiden Grundprobleme der Ethik' (1841): 'Der Mensch kann wohl [/zwar] tun, was er will, aber [er kann] nicht wollen, was er will' ('A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants')

Collection "Willegos"
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