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Zywa Dec 2023
Look at the people

around me to understand --


the course of my life.
Novel "Midnight's Children" (1981, Salman Rushdie), chapter 1-8 "Tick, tock"

Collection "Low gear [2]"
Zywa Dec 2023
The moon shines sorrow

into me, yet I'm looking --


through a haze of tears.
Poem by the monk ("Hoshi") Saigyo (1118-1190):
Nageke tote / Tsuki ya wa mono o / Omowasuru / Kakochi gao naru / Waga namida kana

Collection "Moist glow"
Zywa Dec 2023
My work is simple,

I too am averagely --


uninteresting.
Poem "Arm" ("Poor", 2022, Koenraad Goudeseune), written on his deathbed

Collection "Over"
Zywa Dec 2023
Dying means little

without fantasy, else it's --


about everything.
Novel "Voyage au bout de la nuit" ("Journey to the End of the Night", 1932, Louis-Ferdinand Céline) - "Quand on a pas d'imagination, mourir c'est peu de choses, quand on en a, mourir c'est trop."

Collection "Over"
Zywa Dec 2023
My light will go out,

it couldn't get any darker --


Here I am. Take me.
Isaac calls his father and Abraham answers: "Hineni" ("Here am I", Genesis 22:6), a quotation from Isaiah 6:8 (the calling of the prophet Isaiah): "And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying 'Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?' Then I said, 'Here am I! Send me.' " On New Year's Day (Rosh Hashanah), believers repeat this answer.

Song "You want it darker" (2016, Leonard Cohen)

Collection "Over"
Zywa Dec 2023
You eat of the past

only the halal portion:


the bloodless stories.
Novel "Midnight's Children" (1981, Salman Rushdie), chapter 1-4 "Under the carpet"

Collection "Low gear [2]"
Zywa Dec 2023
Bits and bytes, shooting

through the circuits, are playing --


twister super fast.
"Komboï" ("Knots", 1981, Iannis Xenakis) for harpsichord and percussion, performed by Goska Isphording and Tatiana Koleva in the Organpark on November 29th, 2023

Collection "org anp ark" #333
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