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Zywa Nov 22
Can't you let me dance

in the street, to the music --


I like to dream of?
Autobiographical account "Het Perpetuum Mobile van de Liefde" ("The perpetual motion machine of love", 1988, Renate Dorrestein), chapters 1 Zet eens een kroon op uw liehiefde (Crown your lo-ove), and 2 Haar kop eraf! (Off with her head!)

Collection "Old sore"
Zywa Nov 22
I just shouldn't always

have to do the usual --


things that don't matter.
Autobiographical account "Het Perpetuum Mobile van de Liefde" ("The perpetual motion machine of love", 1988, Renate Dorrestein), chapter 1 Zet eens een kroon op uw liehiefde (Crown your lo-ove)

Collection "Old sore"
Zywa Nov 21
Don't ever leave me,

if you do so anyway --


please, let me find you.
Song "Zelfs je naam is mooi" ("Even your name is beautiful", 1998, Henk Westbroek)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 80s and 90s"
Zywa Nov 21
Aren't all romances

a huge explosion of dreams --


and dearest desires?
Novel "the Passion" (1987, Jeanette Winterson), chapter 1 The Emperor

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 80s and 90s"
Zywa Nov 20
There is a boulder

in the middle of the road --


there is a boulder.
Poem "No meio do caminho" ("In the middle of the road", 1928, Carlos Drummond de Andrade)

Collection "Here &Now&"
Zywa Nov 20
Read, and realise:

it is also about you --


this past history.
Column "Oh, oh, Madame, overdrijft u niet?" ("Oh, oh, Madame, aren't you exaggera-ting?", 2018, Marjoleine de Vos), in the nrc.next of October 26th, 2018

Collection "Here &Now&"
Zywa Nov 19
To really see things

you have to look carefully --


slightly beside them.
Novel "**** nu mijn stem" ("Hear my voice now", 2017, Franca Treur), chapter 27

Collection "Appearances"
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