Oh, just laugh at me
and my funny hat: I live --
and it's not your life.
Och, lach me maar uit	Lach nur über den
om mijn rare muts: ik leef --	komischen Hut: ich lebe --
niet jullie leven.	nicht euer Leben.

Poem H5400
Amsterdam, 2025-04-24
Memoir of a Snail (Adam Elliot) - 2024
With a photo from the animated film "Memoir of a Snail" (2024, Adam Elliot) - Grace Pudel (who is ridiculed for her cleft lip, and wears a 'snail hat')


Collection: Dearme
Keywords: Freedom: self-determination, Animals: snail 
Tribute to: Elliot, Adam 
Dedicated to: Lotte W, Lotte W, Lotte W, Lotte W, Lotte W 

Wisdom is knowing
what is important and how --
you intend to live.
Wijsheid is weten	Weisheit ist: Wissen,
wat belangrijk is en hoe --	was wichtig ist und wie du --
je zelf wilt leven.	selbst leben möchtest.

Poem H5401
Amsterdam, 2025-04-24
Memoir of a Snail (Adam Elliot) - 2024
With a photo from the animated film "Memoir of a Snail" - Pinky


Collection: The climbing house
Keyword: Wisdom 
Tribute to: Elliot, Adam 
Dedicated to: Lotte W, Lotte W, Lotte W, Lotte W, Lotte W 

Others choose my flaws,
I choose my friends, the ones who --
do understand me.
Anderen kiezen	Andere wählen
mijn minpunten, zelf kies ik --	meine Fehler, ich wähle --
wie mijn vrienden zijn.	wer mein Freund sein wird.

Poem H5527
Amsterdam, 2025-05-29
Mary and Max (Adam Elliot) - 2009
Animated film
Collection: Em Brace
Keyword: Friendship: understanding 
Tribute to: Elliot, Adam 

Does a drinker find
at the bottom of his glass --
a child, now and then?
Vindt een man die drinkt	Findet ein Mann, der
op de bodem van zijn glas --	trinkt, am Boden des Glases --
af en toe een kind?	ab und zu ein Kind?

Poem H5526
Amsterdam, 2025-05-29
Mary and Max (Adam Elliot) - 2009
Animated film
As a child, Mary Daisy Dinkle thinks that in Australia children are born at the bottom of a beer glass
Collection: No wonder
Keywords: Gluttony, Manly (lust) 
Tribute to: Elliot, Adam 

Does my sense of friend-
ship disappear once I no --
longer need the friend?
Verdwijnt mijn vriendschaps-	Verschwindet mein Freund-
gevoel zodra ik de vriend --	schaftsgefühl, sobald ich den --
niet meer nodig heb?	Freund nicht mehr brauche?

Poem H5525
Amsterdam, 2025-05-29
Mary and Max (Adam Elliot) - 2009
Animated film
Mary's psychiatrist teaches her that she no longer needs her imaginary friend, old Ravioli
Collection: Em Brace
Keyword: Friendship: help 
Tribute to: Elliot, Adam