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Zywa Jan 2024
I shout: I'll help you,

grab the rope that I throw up --


from the deep, deep pit.
Novel "Maurits en de feiten" ("Maurits and the facts", 1986, Gerrit Krol), § 19

Collection "Shelter"
Zywa Jan 2024
Picking a flower

to hear the snap, the flower --


can be thrown away.
Novel "Maurits en de feiten" ("Maurits and the facts", 1986, Gerrit Krol), § 12

Collection "May the Might"
Zywa Jan 2024
Sometimes I hear bells

ringing, high in the blue sky --


blue aerial bells.
"Maurits en de feiten" ("Maurits and the facts", 1986, Gerrit Krol), § 3

Collection "On the fly"
Zywa Jan 2024
My story hides what

I did, I'm ashamed of it --


it must be a crime.
"Maurits en de feiten" ("Maurits and the facts", 1986, Gerrit Krol), § 4

Collection "On the fly"
Zywa Jan 2024
Whatever you say

to somebody else, you say --


to yourself as well.
"Maurits en de feiten" ("Maurits and the facts", 1986, Gerrit Krol), § 2

Collection "On the fly"
Zywa Jan 2024
They're always swimming,

but fish do move even more --


outside the water.
"Maurits en de feiten" ("Maurits and the facts", 1986, Gerrit Krol), § 2

Collection "Rasping ants"
Zywa Jan 2024
Interrogators

give you a magnifier --


to observe yourself.
Novel "Maurits en de feiten" ("Maurits and the facts", 1986, Gerrit Krol), Prologue

Collection "Specialities"
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