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Zywa 9h
Everyone expects

to win and bets money on --


a castle in air.
Novel "Fury" (2001, Salman Rushdie), chapter 1

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa 9h
Still to be set up:

the Merry Celebration --


of Counting Blessings.
Novel "Fury" (2001, Salman Rushdie), chapter 1

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa 1d
The guests run away,

the staff is left with the feast --


left with the rumours.
Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter Boonyi, § 1

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa 1d
It is night, I walk

across the metropolis --


which denies the night.
Novel "Fury" (2001, Salman Rushdie), chapter 4

Collection "Low gear"
2d · 203
[ India is much ]
Zywa 2d
India is much

more than chaos: through and through --


logical chaos.
Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter India - 'India is chaos making sense'
Zywa 2d
Walking in silence,

listening attentively --


to what the world says.
Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter India
Zywa 3d
On a tightrope, you

walk best thinking of it as --


air that carries you.
Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter Boonyi, § 1

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa 3d
I talk in my sleep,

I recorded it and then --


quickly erased it.
Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter India

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa 4d
I'm expectant and

I'm ready to write it down:


the northern lights, there!
Poem "Mevrouw Despina ziet noorderlicht" ("Mrs. Despina sees northern lights", 2008, Marjoleine de Vos)

Collection "Unseen"
Zywa 4d
The statues destroyed,

temples without a roof, gods --


that are still alive.
Poem 29. "Ionikón" ("Ionic", 1911, Konstantinos Kaváfis)

Collection "Held/True"
Zywa 5d
I seclude myself

in two rooms: one made of stone --


and one made of time.
Column "Derde leg" ("Third laying", 2021, Ellen Deckwitz, in the NRC on May 4th, 2021)

Collections "Death on Cast" and "WriteWiser signage"
Zywa 5d
Well, I think a lot

is wrong, very unhealthy --


they are: opinions.
Column "Niet vervelend" ("Not annoying", 2023, Ellen Deckwitz, in the NRC on June 15th, 2023)

Collection "Death on Cast"
Zywa 6d
My key does not fit

in de front door of my house --


My previous home.
Column "Nieuwe weg" ("New way", 2023, Ellen Deckwitz, in the NRC on August 21st, 2023)

Collection "Death on Cast"
Zywa 6d
That's how he has been:

that toddler, his little hands --


two little starfish.
Column "Niet verplegen" ("Not nursing", 2023, Ellen Deckwitz, in the NRC on August 31st, 2023)
7d · 150
[ A silvery sky ]
Zywa 7d
A silvery sky,

dark and quiet the mountains --


as if sound asleep.
Novella "Fuglene under himmelen" ("The birds under the sky", 2019, Karl Ove Knausgard)

Collection "Glimpsed"
Zywa 7d
She's looking outside,

but still, does she see the view --


our beautiful view?
Novella "Fuglene under himmelen" ("The birds under the sky", 2019, Karl Ove Knausgard)

Collection "Glimpsed"
Zywa May 9
Fragments of people,

with their words and their faces --


their shyness exposed.
Column "De kracht van enthousiasme" ("The power of enthusiasm", 2021, Joyce Roodnat, in the NRC of September 16th)

Collection "Glimpsed"
Zywa May 9
Girls are looking so

enigmatic, smiling, and --


in expectation.
Novel "De opdracht" ("The Mission", 1995, Wessel te Gussinklo), chapter (1-) 2

Collection "Glimpsed"
Zywa May 8
This black hole in time,

the accident, will be filled --


with my memories.
Novel "Buiten is het maandag" ("Outside, it's Monday", 2003, J. Bernlef), chapter 6-4

Collection "Being my museum"
Zywa May 8
It's our secret bed,

there in the dark, where we live --


dreaming together.
Poem "Nagmaal" ("Communion" [sacrament], 1979 (2001), Breyten Breytenbach), written in prison

Collection "Within the walls"
Zywa May 7
For sale on the fair:

brain transplants to your liking --


Choose your memories.
Story "De achtbaan" ("The roller-coaster", 1953, Belcampo)

Collection "Being my own museum"
May 7 · 51
[ I go out and look ]
Zywa May 7
I go out and look

around my house as if it --


has to be cleared out.
Diary "De dood heeft mij een aanzoek gedaan - Over dood, leven en liefde" ("Death made me a proposal - About death, life, and love", 2010, Kristien Hemmerechts)

Collection "Being my own museum"
May 6 · 184
[ At the junk dealer ]
Zywa May 6
At the junk dealer

I write, of course, life stories --


of the furniture.
Novel "Buiten is het maandag" ("Outside, it's Monday", 2003, J. Bernlef), chapter 2-2

Collection "Being my own museum"
Zywa May 6
A waste bag bulging

with plastic is cut open:


the seagull's stomach.
Poem "Skip Fûgel Lân" ("Ship Bird Land", 2019, Eeltsje Hettinga)

Collection "Being my own museum"
May 5 · 170
[ I wrap myself up ]
Zywa May 5
I wrap myself up

in my poem, to show me --


show my open wounds.
Poem "Schizophrenia" (2016, Ghayath Almadhoun)

Collection "Being my own museum"
Zywa May 5
Home is: where you live.

We are not from a country --


but from our childhood.
"On n'est pas d'un pays, on est de son enfance" ("We are not from a country, we are from our childhood", René Frégni, 2016, in the poetic short story collection "Je me souviens de tous vos rêves" ["I remember all your dreams"])

Film "Interdit aux chiens et aux Italiens" ("No Dogs or Italians Allowed", 2022, Alain Ughetto)

Collection "Being my own museum"
Zywa May 4
How healthy are you

when you function very well --


in society?
"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society", attributed to Jiddu Krishnamurti in "The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity" (1975, Mark Vonnegut), based on "Commentaries on Living - Series 3" (1960, Jiddu Krishnamurti), written in the 30s and 40s

Collection "Rasping ants"
Zywa May 4
Headwind slows me down

more than I accelerate --


with that wind behind.
"verstandelijk gezichtsbedrog" ("mental delusion", 1959, Jan Hanlo), in magazine Rabarber #16

Collection "Rasping ants"
Zywa May 3
Orange light at night,

the whole wide country whirring:


the gas field is on.
"60.000 uur - een autobiografie" ("60,000 hours - an autobiography", 1998, Gerrit Krol)

Collection "Rasping ants"
Zywa May 3
The country: flare stacks,

from Loppersum to Tjuchem’s --


burning gates of hell.
Province of Groningen, the Netherlands

"60.000 uur - een autobiografie" ("60,000 hours - an autobiography", 1998, Gerrit Krol)

Collection "Rasping ants"
May 2 · 131
[ I am so in love ]
Zywa May 2
I am so in love

that I must confess to her:


I don't write poems.
Story "Dichtertje" ("Little poet", 1918, Nescio), written in 1917, chapter 2

Collection "Rasping ants"
May 2 · 48
[ I cannot help it ]
Zywa May 2
I cannot help it.

I hev limitid leeway.


I must bee handy.
Poem "Maraton" (1990, Cor Vaandrager)

Collection "Rasping ants"
Zywa May 1
God greatly desires

peace, man gives him more and more --


to ponder about.
Story "Dichtertje" ("Little poet", 1918, Nescio), written in 1917, chapter 1

Collection "Rasping ants"
May 1 · 233
[ The devil glances ]
Zywa May 1
The devil glances

at the clock, eternity --


isn't coming along.
Story "Dichtertje" ("Little poet", 1918, Nescio), written in 1917, chapter 1

Collection "Rasping ants"
Zywa Apr 30
On her bed she thinks

of budding love, so often --


you read about it.
Story "Dichtertje" ("Little poet", 1918, Nescio), written in 1917, chapter 6

Collection "Rasping ants"
Zywa Apr 30
He looks at the clock

and tells her something briefly --


A married couple.
Story "Dichtertje" ("Little poet", 1918, Nescio), written in 1917, chapter 3

Collection "Rasping ants"
Zywa Apr 29
I'm at home, content,

the tea-kettle is singing --


the rain is tapping.
Story "De uitvreter" ("The scrounger", 1911, Nescio), chapter 4

Collection "Rasping ants"
Apr 29 · 55
[ Swerving to avoid ]
Zywa Apr 29
Swerving to avoid

a puddle, I almost step --


into another.
Story "Dichtertje" ("Little poet", 1918, Nescio), written in 1917, chapter 11

Collection "Rasping ants"
Zywa Apr 28
Croaking frogs at night,

a horse running back and forth --


but you can't see it.
Story "Titaantjes" ("Teen Titans", 1915, Nescio), chapter 1

Collection "Rasping ants"
Zywa Apr 28
Those days! We stayed up

at night and went to the sea --


to see the sunrise!
Story "Titaantjes" ("Teen Titans", 1915, Nescio), chapter 1

Collection "Rasping ants"
Apr 27 · 365
[ The sun is setting ]
Zywa Apr 27
The sun is setting,

from the water there's darkness --


rising everywhere.
Story "Titaantjes" ("Teen Titans", 1915, Nescio), chapter 7

Collection "Rasping ants"
Zywa Apr 27
The landscape forces

me to put it on canvas --


and then it won't work.
Story "Titaantjes" ("Teen Titans", 1915, Nescio), chapter 13

Collection "Rasping ants"
Zywa Apr 26
Boys we were, nice boys,

gazing at the paving stones --


gazing at the stars.
Story "Titaantjes" ("Teen Titans", 1915, Nescio), chapter 1

Collection "Rasping ants"
Zywa Apr 26
We were Teen Titans,

the five of us, we were going --


to change everything.
Story "Titaantjes" ("Teen Titans", 1915, Nescio), chapter 1

Collection "Rasping ants"
Apr 25 · 72
[ Any overworld ]
Zywa Apr 25
Any overworld

is a palimpsest over --


a scraped underworld.
Novel "The Moor's Last Sigh" (1995, Salman Rushdie), chapters Spices from Malabar, (2-) 11 and The Moor's Last Sigh, (4-) 19

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Apr 25
The birches are called

silvery white, yeah, language --


can be very poor.
Story "Dichtertje" ("Little poet", 1918, Nescio), written in 1917, chapter 10

Collection "Rasping ants"
Apr 24 · 173
[ Time is fluid, here ]
Zywa Apr 24
Time is fluid, here

on the plane, we are floating --


in moments of now.
Novel "The Moor's Last Sigh" (1995, Salman Rushdie), chapter (4-) 19

Collection "Low gear"
Apr 24 · 51
[ We were citizens ]
Zywa Apr 24
We were citizens,

and suddenly our faith has --


become suspicious.
Novel "The Moor's Last Sigh" (1995, Salman Rushdie), chapters (2-) 13 and (3-) 18

State of Emergency in India 1975-1977, declared under Indira Gandhi; oppression of political opponents and non-Hindus

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Apr 23
Tall bite tales wander

about and attach themselves --


to amputations.
Novel "The Moor's Last Sigh" (1995, Salman Rushdie), chapter (3-) 16

Collection "Low gear"
Apr 23 · 101
[ Mass of supporters ]
Zywa Apr 23
Mass of supporters

times corruption-degree squared --


makes a dynasty.
Novel "The Moor's Last Sigh" (1995, Salman Rushdie), chapter (2-) 15

Bharat's (India's) variation of E=mc2 (Energy = mass * lightspeed square) is: D=mc2 (Dynasty = mass-of-supporters * corruption square)

Collection "Low gear"
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