Like it or not, you

have to learn all kinds of things,


you have to prepare.


Leuk of niet, je moetWohl oder übel,
van alles leren, je moet --du musst allerlei lernen,
je voorbereiden.dich vorbereiten.

Poem H5776
Amsterdam, 2025-08-02
I thought about you: how you were constantly (Frida Vogels) - 1994
Verse "Ik dacht aan je: hoe jij steeds", published in the collection "De harde kern 3" ("The hard core 3", part V [Mother], and in "Diary 1964-1965" (2008) - November 11th, 1965, Bologna
Collection: Self-portraits
Tribute to: Vogels, Frida 
 

Scouting: the balance

of ideals and realism --


we call helpfulness.


Scouting: een balansDie Pfadfinderei:
van grote idealen --aus großen Idealen --
en realisme.und Realismus.

Poem H5520
Amsterdam, 2025-05-28
With a photo of Paul as a cub scout (1962, Tilburg)

Paul

Collection: The climbing house
Dedicated to: Lotte W 
 

Sometimes a child walks

in the hallway during class --


wearing the pee chain.


Soms loopt er een kindManchmal geht ein Kind
tijdens de les op de gang --allein durch die Flure, mit --
Met de plasketting.der Pipikette.

Poem H5416
Amsterdam, 2025-04-28
The warmth fortress (Lucas Rijneveld) - 2022
Childhood memories "Het warmtefort", chapter De gladneuzen (The simple nosed bats)
Collection: Germ Substance
Tribute to: Rijneveld, Lucas 
 

From being read to

by her I learn to live in --


beautiful stories.


Door haar voorlezenDurch ihr Vorlesen
leer ik om te leven in --lerne ich zu leben in --
mooie verhalen.schönen Geschichten.

Poem H5418
Amsterdam, 2025-04-28
The warmth fortress (Lucas Rijneveld) - 2022
Childhood memories "Het warmtefort", chapter Goudkoorts (Goldfever)
Collection: Germ Substance
Tribute to: Rijneveld, Lucas 
 

My dear teacher is

a plaster on everything --


that bleeds from missing.


Mijn lieve schooljufDie Lehrerin ist
is een pleister op alles --ein Pflaster auf allem, was --
wat bloedt van gemis.vom Fehlen blutet.

Poem H5419
Amsterdam, 2025-04-28
The warmth fortress (Lucas Rijneveld) - 2022
Childhood memories "Het warmtefort", chapter Reuzenschouders (Giant shoulders)
Collection: Germ Substance
Tribute to: Rijneveld, Lucas 
 

Sneaking silently,

as part of a secret plan --


and it will end well.


Stilletjes sluipen,Leise anschleichen,
een geheim plan uitvoeren --nach einem geheimen Plan --
en alles komt goed.und alles wird gut.

Poem H4559
Amsterdam, 2024-03-15
Variations on Japanese Children's Songs (Keiko Abe) - 1982
Composition for marimba, performed in the Organpark on March 15th, 2024 by Sung-En Chi
Collection: org ANP ark 
Composer: Abe, Keiko 
 

The fairy tales are

over, since then they just tell --


how it really is.


De sprookjes zijn uit-Die Märchen: verbraucht.
geput, sindsdien vertelt men --Seitdem erzählt man einfach --
maar hoe het echt is.wie es wirklich ist.

Poem H4434
Amsterdam, 2024-01-10
The upper world (Arthur Japin) - 2006
Novella "De grote wereld", chapter 2
Collection: Held True
Tribute to: Japin, Arthur 
 

Educational

books are given to children --


who are our teachers.


Leerzame boekenBildungsbücher sind
zijn voor kinderen, onze --für Kinder, die unsere --
beste leraren.besten Lehrer sind.

Poem H4011
Amsterdam, 2023-08-02
The Queen of the Tambourine (Jane Gardam) - 1991
Novel, § March 10th (1990)
Collection: On the fly
Tribute to: Gardam, Jane 
 

Zywa Learning economy
from human to robot

School boards choose
education on a scale
from craft to treadwheel

With your diploma, you look
from time to time for a place
that fits exactly you

This goes on and on
because everything has to run
on fewer and fewer people

The computers calculate
with virtual attention
how it can be done

Artisans have become volunteers
in museums of entertainment
for everyone who wants something other

than the treadwheels
in which you must run faster and faster
to stay upright

between the grinding mouths
the pounding legs and
the lashing tails

Poem 2346
Amsterdam, 2019-07-06
Collection: Mosaic virus
 

Show what can be done

better, and for the future --


just hope for the best.


Laat zien wat beterZeige mögliche
kan, en hoop voor de toekomst --Verbesserungen auf und --
er het beste van.wünsche das Beste.

Poem H1943
Amsterdam, 2017-12-30
Collection: The climbing house
 

Zywa The party will be later

Bruises on my hips
from a growth spurt, long days
of practising my brains
and always cycling against the wind
in the winter over polder ice

A doctor's prescription
with jealous eyes of my sisters
who also want to eat sweet
cream every day, but then
they'd have to grow faster

make long days of practising their brains
and always cycle against the wind
in the winter over polder ice
(for their future, for themselves –
  the party will be later)

Poem 963
Amsterdam, 2017-01-19
Collection: Life line 
 

Zywa In the whizz

As a child you learn so much
from whipped cream... to silverfishes
be sick and get well

what is tough, what is dirty
where the fixed spots
are in the whiz

of the grown-ups
clean up the toys
you'll need again tomorrow

a year takes nine
haircuts, and you have to sneeze
from hair and tangarines

what your favourite colour is, tickling
thumbwriting and Mikado patience
you swim through the streets

of the planted woods
ahead of dad and mum
beetles, tractors and trains

elfrorquals, wasps' nests
sheepskin and rubber tiles
get up again, walk away

from mum when she asks
it goes?, of course
it goes

by

Poem 929
Amsterdam, 2016-12-28
Collection: Summer birds
Dedicated to: Marianne H, Ali I 
 

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