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May 16 · 133
[ Happiness: a word ]
Zywa May 16
Happiness: a word

of adults, it's a word that --


hinders happiness.
Novel "the Passion" (1987, Jeanette Winterson), chapter 1 the Emperor

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
May 16 · 141
[ Out of my nightmare ]
Zywa May 16
Out of my nightmare,

I wake up in the anxious --


dream that is the world.
Novel "Lighthousekeeping" (2004, Jeanette Winterson), chapter Tenant of the sun

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
May 15 · 97
[ It's not permanent ]
Zywa May 15
It's not permanent,

yet happiness does last long --


as a memory.
Aphorism by Karel Boullart: Geluk is een kort genot en een lange herinnering (Happiness is a short pleasure and a long memory)

Collection "Stall"
Zywa May 15
Next to us, they fall

silent for a while, busy --


rewinding their thoughts.
Collection of family stories "Gezinsverpakking" ("Family package", 2024, 'De Chabotten'), story "Hier, ergens" ("Here, somewhere", Sebastiaan Chabot)

1. Re-flecting
2. For lack of topics of conversation, repeating oneself

Collection "Stall"
May 14 · 149
[ I can't keep up with ]
Zywa May 14
I can't keep up with

him, he walks fast, his body --


is made for crutches.
Novel "Reddende engel" ("Saviour", 2017, Renate Dorrestein), chapter March 11th 19:15

Collection "Old sore"
Zywa May 14
Did something go wrong

in this phone call? I don't know.


I don't think so. Right?
Novel "Zeven soorten honger" ("Seven kinds of hunger", 2016, Renate Dorrestein), part Tuesday, chapter Five

Collection "Old sore"
Zywa May 13
Losing weight: fighting

seven dragons, seven kinds --


of being hungry.
Novel "Zeven soorten honger" ("Seven kinds of hunger", 2016, Renate Dorrestein), part Monday, chapter Four

Hunger of the eye (images of food), the nose (smells), the ear (eating and cooking sounds, talking about food), the mouth (the activity of eating), the head (conditioning to eat), the stomach (low blood sugar), the heart (emptiness)

Collection "Old sore"
Zywa May 13
Would you lose weight if

there's a deposit of your --


full year's salary?
Novel "Zeven soorten honger" ("Seven kinds of hunger", 2016, Renate Dorrestein), part Monday, chapter One

Collection "Old sore"
May 12 · 430
[ Come into my arms ]
Zywa May 12
Come into my arms,

leave your body, discover --


the soul of your soul.
Composition "10 textures and 3 chorales" (2025, Amarante Nat) for hyperorgan, performed on May 10th, 2025 in the Organpark by Amarante Nat

Collection "org anp ARK" #115
May 12 · 111
[ Vowels fall away ]
Zywa May 12
Vowels fall away:

in my ears the reveries --


come in faltering.
Composition "Eight Whiskus" ("Eight whistling haikus", 1984, John Cage) for singing voice, version for violin in 1985, performed on May 10th, 2025 in the Organpark by Amarante Nat (singing voice) and Natálie Kulina (violin)

The text is Cage's adaptation of haikus by Chris Mann (with the computer program Mesolist)

Collection "org anp ARK" #115
May 11 · 112
[ If no one comforts ]
Zywa May 11
If no one comforts,

do it yourself: Munchausen --


demonstrated how.
Text "De vele gedaanten van troost" ("The many guises of consolation"), contribution by Renate Dorrestein to the catalogue of the exhibition "Troost, overleving en bezwering" ("Consolation, survival and spell", 2014, Maja van Hall and Roesja Trimbos), included in her collection "Dagelijks werk - Een schrijversleven" ("Daily work - A writer's life", 2018)

Collection "Old sore"
Zywa May 11
There's always comfort,

whatever sorrow you have:


there's mashed potatoes!
Novel "Heartburn" (1983, Nora Ephron)

Collection "Within the walls"
May 10 · 449
[ A day at the beach ]
Zywa May 10
A day at the beach,

autumn does something to me --


but I don't know what.
Poem "De dood dook op vermomd als sinterklaas" ("Death appeared disguised as Santa Claus",  Bart Chabot)

Collection "Moist glow"
May 10 · 184
[ While withy branches ]
Zywa May 10
While withy branches

tap tick tack in the puddles -


the bells are ringing.
Poem "Bristol" (1945, John Betjeman)

Change-ringing:
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2  1  4  2  5  4  3  5  1  3  2
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5  5  3  3  1  1  2  2  4  4  5

Collection "Moist glow"
Zywa May 9
The wind around the

house is restless, I lie still --


but I am restless.
Collection "Local traffic"
Zywa May 9
Everything goes well

the way it's going, there is --


no final judgement.
Collection "Local traffic"
May 8 · 147
[ Eighty or eighty ]
Zywa May 8
Eighty or eighty?

Their eighty is old, but I --


am not one of them.
Collection "Local inconveniences"
May 8 · 142
[ We are doing well ]
Zywa May 8
We are doing well,

we are not afraid of death --


only of decay.
Collection "Local inconveniences"
Zywa May 7
A house always gets

all kinds of defects, well, we --


just live around them.
Collection of family stories "Gezinsverpakking" ("Family package", 2024, 'De Chabotten'), story "Lieve chaos" ("Dear chaos", Maurits Chabot)

Collection "Home sea"
May 7 · 162
[ I park and get out ]
Zywa May 7
I park and get out

at the bottom of the **** --


The wind blows my hair.
Novel "Luister" ("Listen", 2023, Sacha Bronwasser), part III, Flo and M. 1987-1989

Collection "Home sea"
May 6 · 191
[ Just for a moment ]
Zywa May 6
Just for a moment

you caress my face, and yet --


it lasts a long time.
Novel "Luister" ("Listen", 2023, Sacha Bronwasser), part III, Flo and M. 1987-1989

Collection "Glimpsed"
Zywa May 6
When someone likes me,

it always feels to me like --


a virtue of his.
Novel (roman à clef) "L'invitée" (1943, "She came to stay" / "The Invitee", 1949, Simone de Beauvoir), part 2, chapter 5

Collection "Glimpsed"
May 5 · 366
[ Our eternal love ]
Zywa May 5
Our eternal love

started to blow and then it --


flew out of the bed.
Song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (1976, Blue Öyster Cult, Donald Roeser [Buck Dharma]), album "Agents of Fortune"

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 60s and 70s"
May 5 · 172
[ I'm not free to go ]
Zywa May 5
I'm not free to go

into the woods, there's a free --


couple mating there.
Column "Vrijers" ("Lovers", 1975, Louis Paul Boon), in daily newspaper Vooruit (July 24th, 1975)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 60s and 70s"
May 4 · 135
Drone
Zywa May 4
If I were to fly forward
with my intuition, beyond the green
of the strawberry fields and the rainbow
stripes of the tulips near Amsterdam

over the transience of everything
far enough for an overview
and a glimpse of the Big
Secret of love in life

would I know better
what is good for me
or do I know anyway
and do I dare to trust myself?
For Vanessa V, who turns 23

Collection "The Big Secret"
May 4 · 418
[ Everyone's busy ]
Zywa May 4
Everyone's busy,

me too, if I don't take care --


and forget myself.
Collection "The Big Secret"
Zywa May 3
You're angry. No way.

You are! You quarrel, again --


you contradict me!
Novel "Zolang er leven is" ("As long as there is life", 2004, Renate Dorrestein), part 3, Winter, chapter Zekerheid (Certainty)

Collection "Old sore"
Zywa May 3
She took the blame and

between them arose a wall --


of elusive darkness.
Novel "Het duister dat ons scheidt" (2003, "The darkness that separates us", Renate Dorrestein), part 3, 'Achttien' ('Eighteen' years old), chapter 'IJ is een ijspegel' ('Y is an ijspegel [icicle]')

Collection "Old sore"
Zywa May 2
Children wonder what

it would be like to be dead --


but not: to be old.
Essay "Laat me niet alleen" ("Don't leave me alone", 2008, Renate Dorrestein), chapter "Step Six: Let's face our fears"

Collection "Old sore"
May 2 · 147
[ Am I as good a ]
Zywa May 2
Am I as good a

friend, a lover, a driver --


as I think I am?
Novel "Zolang er leven is" ("As long as there is life", 2004, Renate Dorrestein), part 3, Winter, chapter Spoken (Ghosts)

Collection "Old sore"
Zywa May 1
My birthplace: a bed,

actually, I happen --


to know where on earth.
Childhood memories "Het warmtefort" ("The warmth fortress", 2022, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld), chapter Zetpoters (Seedlings)

Collection "Germ Substance"
Zywa May 1
Sometimes a child walks

in the hallway during class --


wearing the *** chain.
Childhood memories "Het warmtefort" ("The warmth fortress", 2022, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld), chapter De gladneuzen (The simple nosed bats)

Collection "Germ Substance"
Apr 30 · 128
[ The future hides it- ]
Zywa Apr 30
The future hides it-

self like a chameleon --


in the blackest black.
The blackest black is Dark Chamaleon Dimers (specific dimers)

Collection "Local interest"
Apr 30 · 116
[ The tables are set ]
Zywa Apr 30
The tables are set,

we are care-free, nervously --


our feast has begun.
For Koen K and Zusanne, four days before their wedding

Collection "Local interest"
Zywa Apr 29
Of course I'm the cook,

although we like to keep that --


negotiable.
Performance "Stroman & Trawanten" ("Straw man & Hendymen", 1983, Freek de Jonge)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 80s and 90s"
Zywa Apr 29
You love me, you do

know what love is, and that is --


why I know now too.
Song "Jij", performance "De Mars" (Song "You", performance "The March", 1981, Freek de Jonge, music Henny Vrienten)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 80s and 90s"
Zywa Apr 28
Would the apple seeds

inside my belly sprout and --


start to take root there?
Concert "Het Oog in de Naald" ("The Eye in the Needle", 2023, Albert van Veenendaal), #5, "Apple Tree", performed on April 25th, 2025 in the Organpark, by Francisca Snip (speaking voice), Albert van Veenendaal (prepared piano), Rogier Hornman (cello) and Roosmarijn Tuenter (viola)

Collection "org anp ARK" #113
Apr 28 · 121
[ Fairies are dancing ]
Zywa Apr 28
Fairies are dancing

in the coral, its colours --


are fading, sadly.
Composition "Spel 1" from "Coral Speak" ("Play 1" from "Coral Speak" [of the Great Barrier Reef], 2016, Kate Moore), for vibraphone, coral instruments and stereo track, performed in the Organpark on February 14th, 2025 by Meiyi Lee of the Herz Ensemble

Collection "org anp ARK" #93
Apr 27 · 142
[ I threw my suitcase ]
Zywa Apr 27
I threw my suitcase

into the hole and I jumped --


back into my youth.
Poem "Fakkel" ("Torch", 2018, Bart Chabot)

Collection "Being my own museum"
Apr 27 · 153
[ No one cares about ]
Zywa Apr 27
No one cares about

what I did wrong in the past --


yet it torments me.
Novel "An Artist of the Floating World" (1986, Kazuo Ishiguro), chapter 'November 1949'

Collection "Being my own museum"
Apr 26 · 367
[ Car with a driver ]
Zywa Apr 26
Car with a driver

waiting for me, it is just --


too big to be parked.
Collection "Local traffic"
Apr 26 · 209
[ The bedbugs are dead ]
Zywa Apr 26
The bedbugs are dead.

So we are not in danger --


Still I am itchy.
Because of armadillidiidae (pill-bugs) on the second floor of the holiday apartment building

Collection "Local traffic"
Zywa Apr 25
All things are still lives

in themselves, unpretentious --


what they are there for.
Novel "Het Bureau - Meneer Beerta" ("The Office - Mister Beerta", 1996, Han Voskuil), 1957 (page 33)

Collection "Not too bad"
Apr 25 · 159
[ The new Office is ]
Zywa Apr 25
The new Office is

growing, in the rear garden --


of the Head Office.
Novel "Het Bureau - Meneer Beerta" ("The Office - Mister Beerta", 1996, Han Voskuil), 1957 (pages 9, 33, 758)

Collection "Not too bad"
Zywa Apr 24
Is the snake rustling

behind me, that lay sleeping --


between the pine cones?
Poem "Beweging" - 1 ("Movement" - 1, 1992, Maria van Daalen)

Collection "Unseen"
Apr 24 · 194
[ So many taboos ]
Zywa Apr 24
So many taboos

there are, in modern countries --


people call them laws.
Column "Laat sommige taboes maar fijn bestaan" ("Let some taboos just remain", 2024, Josette Daemen), in the NRC of November 23rd, 2024

Collection "Unseen"
Apr 23 · 223
[ The wind is humming ]
Zywa Apr 23
The wind is humming

low in the deep cave, it sings --


itself less lonely.
Composition "Boete", part 3: "Stoek" ("Penance", part 3: "Trac", 2023, Jan-Bas Bollen), for HyperTheremin and two organs, performed by Jan-Bas Bollen in the Organpark on March 22nd, 2025

Collection "org anp ARK" #105
Zywa Apr 23
Behind the rocks there

is something mysterious --


You'd better not look.
Composition "Erdia Da" ("Offering to Mother Earth"), #8 from the album "Pèkisyon Funebri" ("Funeral service", 2016, MMMD [Mohammad] = Ilios and Nikos Veliotis), performed in the Organpark on April 12th, 2025 by Ilios Veliotis (oscillators), Nikos Veliotis (electronic cello), and Alex Mastichiadis ('ALEM', *****)

Collection "org anp ARK" #108
Apr 22 · 155
[ We humans can want ]
Zywa Apr 22
We humans can want

a lot, but of our will we --


are not the master.
Arthur Schopenhauer on human will, in short from a passage in 'Die beiden Grundprobleme der Ethik' (1841): 'Der Mensch kann wohl [/zwar] tun, was er will, aber [er kann] nicht wollen, was er will' ('A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants')

Collection "Willegos"
Zywa Apr 22
The real special thing

about people is: special --


is each one of them.
Novel "Atlas shrugged"  (1957, Ayn Rand), part 3 'A is A', chapter 2 'The Utopia of Greed'

Collection "Willegos"
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