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Zywa Mar 12
A tangled patchwork,

bits of all kinds of people --


that's how Mumbai was.
Novel "Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights" (which is 1001 nights, 2015, Salman Rushdie), chapter 2, Mr Geronimo

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Mar 11
Might fidelity

be: pretending love, hoping --


it will get better?
Submitted letter "Liefde is vormenplicht" ("Love is a duty of formality") by Henk Bresssers, included in the article "*** voorkomt u dat uw huwelijk in de scheidingsstatistieken belandt?" ("How do you prevent your marriage from ending up in the divorce statistics?"), published in the NRC of December 24th, 2019

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 10s"
Zywa Mar 11
My kisses ask you:

please love me, I do love you --


because I kiss you.
Submitted letter "Liefde is vormenplicht" ("Love is a duty of formality") by Henk Bresssers, included in the article "*** voorkomt u dat uw huwelijk in de scheidingsstatistieken belandt?" ("How do you prevent your marriage from ending up in the divorce statistics?"), published in the NRC of December 24th, 2019

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 10s"
Zywa Mar 10
Politics revolves

around trying to control --


our powerlessness.
Novel "Vladiwostok!" (2007, Pieter F. Thomése), part 1, chapter 9

Collection "May the Might"
Zywa Mar 10
Cruel potentates

establish 'peace', simply by --


creating wastelands.
Political biography "De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae" ("On the life and character of Julius Agricola", AD 98, Publius Cornelius Tacitus), § 30: 'Auferre trucidare rapere falsis nominibus imperium, atque ibi solitudinem faciunt, pacem apellant' ('To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire, and where they make a desert they call it peace')

Collection "May the Might"
Zywa Mar 9
Finding the greater

problem and proclaiming it --


thát is politics!
Novel "Vladiwostok!" (2007, Pieter F. Thomése), part 1, chapter 11

Collection "May the Might"
Zywa Mar 9
It is all pastel,

the light, the music and I --


this very spring day.
Composition "Sonate per due organi" ("Sonata for two organs"), Muzio Clementi, performed in the Organpark on December 2nd, 2011 by Erwin Wieringa and Theo Hellema
Walls in pastel colours, stained-glass windows

Collection "org" #18
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