Zywa

Zywa Horses are the same

I don't want to be an object
of course, but human, a subject
not completely free perhaps

but also not in the hell
of other people's judgment
unless I would ignore

that I am a part of us
a part of human love
that falls short

a part of sometimes cruel
self-interest, short-sighted
by built-in blinkers

against my nervous fear
of the purgatory of the failures
of other people and myself

Whoever wants more freedom
and does leave the herd, will know
to be in hell right then

Poem 2056
Amsterdam, 2019-01-26
No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre) - 1943
"L'enfer, c'est les Autres" ("Hell is other people"), from the one-act play "Huis clos" ("No Exit" / "Closed doors", 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre)
Collection: Lilith's Powers
Keywords: Harmony: cooperation, Heaven / Sky / Hell
Tribute to: Sartre, Jean-Paul

Zywa Anything but

Talking to men
who I don't know
singing along with the music

on which I dance in the eyes
that follow me
like shadows

wishing to be desired
without being in danger
dressed for it, that too

is who I am, free
to the extent it is permitted
by the hell

of other people's eyes
that love my body
and hate me for it

but that's not me
I am anything
but what they think

Poem 1164
Amsterdam, 2017-03-08
No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre) - 1943
One act play "Huis clos" ("No Exit" / "Closed doors")
Everyone's freedom of action is limited by the judging look of other people
Collection: Webgarden
Keyword: Freedom:
Tribute to: Sartre, Jean-Paul

Zywa The drama

What I secretly do
but not hidden

from myself, the truth
that I do not want to know

yet sometimes see
in the questioning eyes

of others, surprised
or hurt, on the border

of judgment on me
is the truth in the eyes

of my conscience that examines me
I sweat, it's a purgatory

and as long as it lasts, it is
hell: I am not

just myself
but one of the others

That's the drama

Poem 1876
Amsterdam, 2018-10-19
No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre) - 1943
One act play "Huis clos" ("No Exit" / "Closed doors")
Collection: The drama
Keyword: Together: connected
Tribute to: Sartre, Jean-Paul

A sleepy village,

the doors and shutters are closed --

Dogs barking loudly.



Een slaperig dorp	Verschlafenes Dorf
met afgesloten deuren --	mit verschlossenen Türen --
Blaffende honden.	Bellende Hunde.

Poem S1978
Amsterdam, 2023-10-25
escape route (Emilie Dewitte) - 2022
Poem "vluchtweg" (collection "Werk")
One-act play "Huis clos" ("Closed doors", 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre)
Collection: The Note Tree
Keyword: Village
Tribute to: Dewitte, Emilie; Sartre, Jean-Paul

No more privacy,

people can see all of me --

Well, that's really hell!



Geen privacy meer,	Keine Privatheit,
mensen zien alles van mij --	die Leute sehen alles --
Wat een hel is dat!	Was eine Hölle!

Poem S1291
Amsterdam, 2021-12-02
No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre) - 1943
Big Brother
"L'enfer, c'est les Autres" ("Hell is Other people") from the one-act play "Closed doors, 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre)
Collection: Whirligig Scribbler
Keyword: Heaven / Sky / Hell
Tribute to: Sartre, Jean-Paul

The room is empty,

emptiness in the mirrors --

that do not show me.



De kamer is leeg,	Der Raum: komplett leer,
een leegte in de spiegel --	eine Leere im Spiegel --
die mij niet laat zien.	der mir mich nicht zeigt.

Poem S0808
Amsterdam, 2018-10-17
No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre) - 1943
One act play "Huis clos" ("No Exit" / "Closed doors") - Scene 5 - Estelle
Collection: Unseen
Keyword: Alone: lonely
Tribute to: Sartre, Jean-Paul

Zywa Dim rooms

I walk through the village
The sun shines, the wind blows
a little through my hair

The shutters are closed
with chinks thin as needles
with long narrow eyes

My shadow doesn't fall inside
anywhere, there are none
in the dim rooms

where the light drearily
obscures what is going on
and what the consequences are

of everyone's comings and goings
The peeping people press me
as compelling devils

out of their eyes
out of the chinks in their lives
The sun upon me is insufferable

Poem 1785
Amsterdam, 2018-06-07
No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre) - 1943
"L'enfer, c'est les Autres" ("Hell is other people"), from the one-act play "Huis clos" ("No Exit" / "Closed doors", 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre)
Collection: PumicePieces
Keyword: Foreigners: different
Tribute to: Sartre, Jean-Paul

Houses with closed doors,

city within the city --

Everyone is dead.



Een stad in de stad,	Die Stadt in der Stadt,
huizen met dichte deuren --	Häuser mit geschlossenen
Iedereen is dood.	Türen. Nur Töten.

Poem H5415
Amsterdam, 2025-04-26
With a photo of the burial houses at the Rond Point Casimir Périer in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris (March 26th, 1991)
One-act play "Huis clos" ("Closed doors", 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre)

Collection: Metamorphic body
Keywords: Death: cemetery / funeral, Paris, Life: course (end)
Tribute to: Sartre, Jean-Paul
Dedicated to: Lotte W, Lotte W, Lotte W, Lotte W, Lotte W

Zywa Frames

Frames manage
a lot in the house

They decide about sofas
and cupboards, which

models may enter
Tables, beds, pianos
cradles and baths
Roller coasters
they refuse contemptuously

Frames choose
for everyone

what everyone should choose
because people aim for standards
frameworks for their lives
ISO ASA EN BS
We are all equal

and doors are two meters
34 by 93 (Building code 2012)

Poem 1998
Amsterdam, 2018-12-16
"L'existentialisme est un humanisme" ("Existentialism is a humanism", 1946, Jean-Paul Sartre)
Collection: New Ago
Keyword: Order: (re)organise
Tribute to: Sartre, Jean-Paul

Hell of man
Amsterdam, 2012-04-03
Poster design
Collection:
Keywords: Human: fellow man, Poster
Tribute to: Sartre, Jean-Paul
Dedicated to: Karin J J, Karin J J, Karin J J, Karin J J, Karin J J

Enfer du prochain
Amsterdam, 2012-04-02
Poster design ("Hell of man")
Collection:
Keywords: Human: fellow man, Poster
Tribute to: Sartre, Jean-Paul
Dedicated to: Karin J J, Karin J J, Karin J J, Karin J J, Karin J J

Naastenhel
Amsterdam, 2012-04-01
Poster design ("Hell of man")
Collection:
Keywords: Human: fellow man, Poster
Tribute to: Sartre, Jean-Paul
Dedicated to: Karin J J, Karin J J, Karin J J, Karin J J, Karin J J

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