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Zywa Apr 7
A person must learn,

there are no suns anywhere --


that don't cast shadows.
Novel "Midnight's Children" (1981, Salman Rushdie), chapter 3-7 "Abracadabra": We must live, I'm afraid, with the shadows of imperfection

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Apr 6
The world does exist,

finally I know for sure:


I am dying there.
Novel "The Satanic Verses" (1988, Salman Rushdie), chapter 9 A wonderful lamp

Collection "Low gear"
Apr 6 · 243
[ An imperfection ]
Zywa Apr 6
An imperfection

is a shadow in your life --


with thanks to the sun.
Novel "Midnight's Children" (1981, Salman Rushdie), chapter 3-7 "Abracadabra": We must live, I'm afraid, with the shadows of imperfection

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Apr 5
Cities put their faith

in citizens, villages --


put their faith in god.
Novel "The Moor's Last Sigh" (1995, Salman Rushdie), chapter A house divided, (1-) 4

Collection "Low gear"
Apr 5 · 150
[ The biggest taboo ]
Zywa Apr 5
The biggest taboo

is of course, ouch, your parents' --


sexuality.
Novel "The Moor's Last Sigh" (1995, Salman Rushdie), chapter A house divided, (1-) 7

Collection "Low gear"
Apr 4 · 286
[ Family demands ]
Zywa Apr 4
Family demands

obedience, love isn't --


invulnerable.
Novel "The Moor's Last Sigh" (1995, Salman Rushdie), chapter A house divided, (1-) 7

Collection "Low gear"
Apr 4 · 117
[ Waiving happiness ]
Zywa Apr 4
Waiving happiness

and suffering for the truth:


a better country.
Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru

Novel "The Moor's Last Sigh" (1995, Salman Rushdie), chapter A house divided, (1-) 3

Collection "Low gear"
Apr 3 · 192
[ I'm walking my dog ]
Zywa Apr 3
I'm walking my dog

in the sound of the silence --


with my earplugs in.
Novel "Fury" (2001, Salman Rushdie), chapter 7

Song "The sound of silence" (1964, Simon & Garfunkel)

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Apr 3
Corpses in the street

look like humans, but fake ones --


more like broken dolls.
Novel "Fury" (2001, Salman Rushdie), chapter 6

Collection "Low gear"
Apr 2 · 184
[ Human babies are ]
Zywa Apr 2
Human babies are

infected from birth, with the --


story parasite.
Novel "Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights" (which is 1001 nights, 2015, Salman Rushdie), chapter 4 "The Strangenessses"

Collection "Low gear"
Apr 2 · 490
[ It's a merry day ]
Zywa Apr 2
It's a merry day,

we dance on the earth *****:


feet full of music.
Composition "Velocities (Moto Perpetuo)" for marimba (1990, Joseph Schwantner), performed in the Organpark on March 15th, 2024 by Tomasz Herisz - Tatiana Koleva calls the marimba an earth-*****

Collection "anp" #176
Apr 1 · 1.1k
[ Within every ]
Zywa Apr 1
Within every

story new stories, that's how --


the universe works.
Novel "Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights" (which is 1001 nights, 2015, Salman Rushdie), chapter 7 "Within the Chinese Box,"

Collection "Low gear"
Apr 1 · 243
[ Sneaking silently ]
Zywa Apr 1
Sneaking silently,

as part of a secret plan --


and it will end well.
Composition "Variations on Japanese Children's Songs" for marimba (1982, Keiko Abe), performed in the Organpark on March 15th, 2024 by Sung-En Chi

Collection "anp" #177
Zywa Mar 31
The many years lived

make me crooked, I subside --


sink into my roots.
Novel "Spertyd" ("Deadline", 2017, Elsa Joubert), opening sentence

Collection "After the festivities"
Mar 31 · 294
[ We only conquer ]
Zywa Mar 31
We only 'conquer'

our own place in the world by --


living together.
Symbiosis (Living together): the "Survival of the fittest" (1864, Herbert Spencer) takes place within systems of symbiosis (1966, Lynn Margulis)

Collection "The drama"
Mar 30 · 165
[ I'm dreaming my life ]
Zywa Mar 30
I'm dreaming my life

in a parallel world, it's --


a roller-coaster.
In response to Esther Gerritsen's lack of critical imagination in describing the mental rollercoaster in her novel "Gebied 19" ("Area 19", part of the visual cortex in the brain, 2023, Esther Gerritsen), with a reference from me to the story "De achtbaan" ("The roller-coaster", 1953, Belcampo)

Collection "Held/True"
Zywa Mar 30
The neighbours have left,

their garden is drying out --


now I water it.
Novel "Gebied 19" ("Area 19", part of the visual cortex in the brain, 2023, Esther Gerritsen), chapters 1-1, 1-2, 1-8

Collection "Stream"
Zywa Mar 29
My foe shows no light,

but I do sense some little --


dark within myself.
Novel "Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights" (which is 1001 nights, 2015, Salman Rushdie), chapter 8 "In Which the Tide Begins to Turn"

Collection "Low gear"
Mar 29 · 239
[ She never shuts up ]
Zywa Mar 29
She never shuts up,

in my sleep she keeps talking:


Radio Married.
Novel "Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights" (which is 1001 nights, 2015, Salman Rushdie), chapter 6 "Dunia in Love, Again"

Collection "Low gear"
Mar 28 · 175
[ He is also there ]
Zywa Mar 28
He is also there,

listlessly looking away --


we mumble hello.
Novel "De opdracht" ("The Mission", 1995, Wessel te Gussinklo), chapter (1-) 3

Collection "Truder"
Zywa Mar 28
Girls giggle and they

keep shifting the position --


of their bulging calves.
Novel "De opdracht" ("The Mission", 1995, Wessel te Gussinklo), chapter (1-) 4

Collection "Glimpsed"
Mar 27 · 423
[ The way he behaves ]
Zywa Mar 27
The way he behaves,

imitating me, never --


I would act like that!
Novel "De opdracht" ("The Mission", 1995, Wessel te Gussinklo), chapter (2-) 18

Collection "Glimpsed"
Zywa Mar 27
He looks around, so

he isn't dangerous, he dares --


not do anything.
Novel "De opdracht" ("The Mission", 1995, Wessel te Gussinklo), chapter (3-) 24

Collection "Actively Passive"
Zywa Mar 26
They're laughing at me,

it just happens, it really --


really can't be true.
Novel "De opdracht" ("The Mission", 1995, Wessel te Gussinklo), chapter (2-) 15

Collection "Truder"
Mar 26 · 161
[ Dilated pupils ]
Zywa Mar 26
Dilated pupils

in a swollen, white face, that's --


what sadness looks like.
Novel "De opdracht" ("The Mission", 1995, Wessel te Gussinklo), chapter (4-) 44

Collection "VacantVoid"
Mar 25 · 105
[ Characteristic ]
Zywa Mar 25
Characteristic

of old people's buildings is --


their name: Home of Loss.
Novel "Spertyd" ("Deadline", 2017, Elsa Joubert)

Collection "After the festivities"
Mar 25 · 119
[ The shadows are long ]
Zywa Mar 25
The shadows are long,

I'm waiting, it's getting dark --


it's coming closer.
Song "Not Dark Yet" (1997, Bob Dylan, album "Time Out of Mind")

Collection "Great Stream"
Mar 24 · 93
[ A new appointment ]
Zywa Mar 24
A new appointment,

and today my first grey hair:


what many changes!
Poem "My first grey hair appeared", 806, Bai Juyi) - "Just ten days after starting this new job, I looked in the mirror and noticed I had sprung two new gray hairs."

Collection "Stream"
Mar 24 · 646
[ The lunar orbit ]
Zywa Mar 24
The lunar orbit,

the decline of my body:


it all goes slowly.
Poem "The full moon climbs slowly, slowly higher" (1610, Yuan Hongdao)

Collection "Stream"
Zywa Mar 23
Something shiny there,

I stop and kick it away --


pff, just a dead star.
Story "How I picked up a star" (1923, Taruho Inagaki)

Collection "Held/True"
Mar 23 · 241
[ The fairy tales are ]
Zywa Mar 23
The fairy tales are

over, since then they just tell --


how it really is.
Novella "De grote wereld" ("The upper world", 2006, Arthur Japin), chapter 2

Collection "Held/True"
Mar 22 · 116
[ The feeling you are ]
Zywa Mar 22
The feeling you are

being used is not as bad --


as being unused.
Novella "De grote wereld" ("The upper world", 2006, Arthur Japin), chapter 9 --- Collection "Wean Di"
Zywa Mar 22
The storm sweeps away

everything, there is nothing --


just a shoreless sea.
Poem "Van voren af aan" ("Again from the start", 1947, Jan Slauerhoff), quoted in the novel "De verdronkene" (2005, "The Storm" / "The drowned", 2010, Margriet de Moor), about the North Sea flood of 1953 --- Bundel "VacantVoid"
Mar 21 · 169
[ There is a shot hole ]
Zywa Mar 21
There is a shot hole

in the photo on the hearts --


of fallen soldiers.
Novel "jl." ("recently" - the title also refers to Juno Linnaarts, 2016, Anjet Daanje), chapter August 1st, 2008 --- Collection "May the Might"
Mar 21 · 173
[ Conforming myself ]
Zywa Mar 21
Conforming myself,

keeping my mouth shut: my fear --


won't protect me though.
Essay "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action" (1977, Audre Lorde) --- Collection "Wean Di"
Mar 20 · 447
[ Making people laugh]
Zywa Mar 20
Making people laugh

is risky, because they will --


force you to do it.
Novella "De grote wereld" ("The upper world", 2006, Arthur Japin), chapter 5 --- Collection "Wean Di"
Mar 20 · 143
[ Will I then remain]
Zywa Mar 20
Will I then remain

a child, showing my parents --


my abilities?
Novel "jl." ("recently" - the title also refers to Juno Linnaarts, 2016, Anjet Daanje), chapter December 9th, 1980 --- Collection "High gear"
Mar 19 · 501
[ The single greatest ]
Zywa Mar 19
The single greatest

economic power is --


bribeandcorruption.
Novel "The Golden House" (2017, Salman Rushdie), chapter (2-) 23

Baksheesh = Gift, Tip >> "briberyandcorruption"

Collection "Low gear"
Mar 19 · 135
[ The gold is shining ]
Zywa Mar 19
The gold is shining

more and more, and so brightly --


that it catches fire.
Novel "The Golden House" (2017, Salman Rushdie), chapters (1-) 6 and (2-) 29

Collection "Low gear"
Mar 18 · 329
[ The grand parade is ]
Zywa Mar 18
The grand parade is

over, and never over:


unforgettable.
Novel "Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights" (which is 1001 nights, 2015, Salman Rushdie), chapter 1, The Children of Ibn Rushd (Averroes, 1126-1198)

Collection "Low gear"
Mar 18 · 196
[ Stamps on the pages ]
Zywa Mar 18
Stamps on the pages

of the letter to my dad:


Not To Be Censored.
Novel "Fury" (2001, Salman Rushdie), chapter 9

Collection "Low gear"
Mar 17 · 185
At the bench
Zywa Mar 17
At the bench, just before
we get there, he reaches
for the ground

and sits down
but he doesn't seem to know how
he doesn't seem to be well, I wait

A municipal man comes
to see and he calls for help, sirens
My companion is carefully laid down

A woman presses her arms
around me and holds me
caressing me

Others are watching
tirelessly his chest rises
after every push, another push

I'm still not allowed
to go to him, I'm waiting
it can't be right

that he stays down
that he is not on the bench
that he doesn't talk to me
On the death of a neighbour while walking his dog on March 14th, 2024

Collection "Webgarden"
Mar 17 · 346
[ Waiting is living ]
Zywa Mar 17
Waiting is living

half, putting deeds off, looking --


in front of oneself.
Collection "Webgarden"
Zywa Mar 16
The jinns: a cloud cuts

through the moon and through the eye --


that looks at the moon.
Novel "Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights" (which is 1001 nights, 2015, Salman Rushdie), chapter 4 "The Strangenessses"

Film "Un Chien Andalou" ("An Andalusian Dog", 1929, Luis Buñuel, screenplay with Salvador Dalí)

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Mar 16
Better not to count

on society or God --


Provide for supplies.
Novel "Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights" (which is 1001 nights, 2015, Salman Rushdie), chapter 2 "Mr Geronimo"

Collection "Low gear"
Mar 15 · 174
[ Then, Adam and Eve ]
Zywa Mar 15
Then, Adam and Eve

invented god and soon he --


was superior.
Novel "Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights" (which is 1001 nights, 2015, Salman Rushdie), chapter 4 "The Strangenessses"

Collection "Low gear"
Mar 15 · 82
[ I never dare to ]
Zywa Mar 15
I never dare to

speak to them, not one of them --


does even see me.
Novel "Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights" (which is 1001 nights, 2015, Salman Rushdie), chapter 2 "Mr Geronimo"

Collection "Low gear"
Mar 14 · 282
[ Behind her: a man ]
Zywa Mar 14
Behind her: a man,

his head perched on her shoulder --


like a frightful hawk.
Novel "Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights" (which is 1001 nights, 2015, Salman Rushdie), chapter 2 "Mr Geronimo"

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Mar 14
So strange, wealth offers

everything to be happy --


and yet it doesn't work.
Novel "Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights" (which is 1001 nights, 2015, Salman Rushdie), chapter 2 ("Mr Geronimo"): 'The rich are obscure to us, finding ways to be unhappy when all the normal causes of unhappiness are removed.'

Collection "Low gear"
Mar 13 · 152
[ Gee, where exactly ]
Zywa Mar 13
Gee, where exactly

are the landmines that I placed --


the lies and the truths?
Novel "Vladiwostok!" (2007, Pieter F. Thomése), part 3, chapter 28

Collection "May the Might"
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