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Zywa Aug 2024
I am not gloomy,

just the same everyone asks --


How are you today?
"Psychiatrisch dagboek" ("Psychiatric diary", 1994, Bert Weijde), May 16th, 1961 in Amsterdam

Collection "Em Brace"
Zywa Aug 2024
It's only a part

of me that decides, that's it --


for my whole being.
"Diary 1958-1959" (2006, Frida Vogels), October 24th, 1958 in the train

Collection "Trench Walking"
Zywa Aug 2024
The more concretely

you tell a story, the less --


you'll be understood.
"Diary 1958-1959" (2006, Frida Vogels), February 12th, 1958 in Amsterdam

Collections "Trench Walking" and "WriteWiser signage"
Zywa Aug 2024
Once again we walk

in the old track, we're absent --


There is no meeting.
Poem "Ik loop weer naast je" ("I walk next to you again", 2006, Frida Vogels), published in "Dagboek 1958-1959" ("Diary 1958-1959", 2006), May 19th, 1958 in Luxemburg, about a walk on the beach near Bergen on May 17th, 1958

Collection "Trench Walking"
Zywa Aug 2024
My friend goes, gives me

a rose from the bush, alas --


still in the bud, picked.
Ballad "Au bord d'une fontaine" ("By the edge of a fountain", 1500), set to music by Mozart in 1781 (K360, "Hélas, j'ai perdu mon amant")

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
Zywa Aug 2024
The fountain is clear,

I dry myself with some grass --


The nightingale sings.
Ballad "Au bord d'une fontaine" ("By the edge of a fountain", 1500), set to music by Mozart in 1781 (K360, "Hélas, j'ai perdu mon amant")

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
Zywa Aug 2024
You are poetry,

sleeping in a guest-room bed --


and I keep watching.
Poem "Chaos" (1998, Erik Jan Harmens)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 80s and 90s"
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