| Cargo ships unload | |
| the riches of my homeland -- | |
| It makes me feel poor. | |
| De schepen lossen | Die Schiffe löschen |
| de rijkdom van mijn thuisland -- | den Reichtum meiner Heimat -- |
| en ik voel me arm. | Ich fühle mich arm. |
Amsterdam, 2026-10-21
On an Italian beach (Constantíne Cavafy) - 1925
Poem #119 "Eis Italiken paralian"
Collection: Tardiness in Acceleration
Tribute to: Kaváfis, Konstantínos
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The women, the countries |
Amsterdam, 2026-09-18
Collection: PumicePieces
| Yellow smoke and then | |
| the vibrations, the muffled -- | |
| humming of the tanks. | |
| Na de gele rook: | Der gelbe Rauch, die |
| de trillingen, het doffe -- | Vibrationen, das dumpfe -- |
| gebrom van de tanks. | Summen der Panzer. |
Zandvoort aan Zee, 2026-09-03
The man who read books (Rachid Benzine) - 2025
Novel "L'homme qui lisait des livres", chapter "If This Is a Man", named after the book "Se questo è un uomo" (1958, Primo Levi)
Collection: Truder
Tribute to: Benzine, Rachid
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They gave us small thanks |
Amsterdam, 2026-03-08
Political Science (Randy Newman) - 1972
Four 5-7-5-verses about 'MAGA' (Make America Great Again)
Song "Political Science", album "Sail Away"
Collection: Human excess
Tribute to: Newman, Randy
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I hear someone cry |
Amsterdam, 2026-01-12
Collection: Changing Times
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Killing him, calling him names |
Amsterdam, 2026-01-06
Imperialism of China, the United States, and Russia
Collection: Changing Times
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There's a power cut |
Amsterdam, 2026-01-05
Captain Haddock: Thunder and lightning!
Collection: Changing Times
| In this faraway | |
| land tourists wear cowboy hats: | |
| it is their Wild West! | |
| Toeristen dragen | Touristen tragen |
| cowboyhoeden: het is hier -- | Cowboyhüte, denn hier ist -- |
| hun Wilde Westen! | ihr Wilder Westen! |
Amsterdam, 2024-08-10
Nobody here can predict the past (Garrie van Pinxteren) - 2024
Essay "Niemand hier kan het verleden voorspellen", in the NRC of August 10th, 2024
Collection: Truder
Tribute to: Van Pinxteren, Garrie
| Two neighbourhoods, just | |
| like a dumb-bell: colonists -- | |
| and dominated. | |
| De twee wijken, net | Wie eine Hantel, |
| een halter: kolonisten -- | zwei Viertel: Kolonisten -- |
| en overheersten. | und die Beherrschten. |
Amsterdam, 2024-07-08
Shame (Salman Rushdie) - 1983
Novel / Exposition with stories, part 1, chapter 1 Dumb waiter
The description of the town is modeled on Quetta
Collection: Shadows
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman
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Feelings about that word |
Amsterdam, 2024-04-19
Mass immigration of Jews into Palestine since 1919
Promise: the Promised Land
Marched: photo of the Scots Guards passing down Bethlehem Road below the citadel of Jerusalem in 1936
Collection: PumicePieces
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Where? Is there room? |
Amsterdam, 2024-04-13
Specimil = Special military operation
2,000 years ago, Jewish zealots continued to resist Roman colonisation; this led to the diaspora, to escape the Shoah (total annihilation) of that time
Collection: The King
| Still, the colonists | |
| of the past steal, decently -- | |
| from the safe bank vaults. | |
| De kolonisten | Die Kolonisten |
| van vroeger stelen netjes -- | stehlen anständig weiter -- |
| uit de bankkluizen. | aus Banktresoren. |
Amsterdam, 2023-09-07
A Change of tongue (Antjie Krog) - 2003
Tale, part 1 § 2
Collection: Specialities
Tribute to: Krog, Antjie
| The white prison guards | |
| lock up the black souls in white -- | |
| imaginations. | |
| De witte cipiers | Die weiße Wärter |
| sluiten zwarte zielen op -- | sperren schwarze Seelen ein -- |
| in witte beelden. | in weißen Bildern. |
Amsterdam, 2023-08-19
Black Bodies, White Gazes: the Continuing Significance of Race (George Yancy) - 2008
Book
Collection: May the Might
Tribute to: Yancy, George
| As new colonists | |
| we steal other people's works: | |
| we poets of fame. | |
| Als kolonisten | Als Siedler klauen |
| pikken we andermans werk: | wir die Schriften anderer: |
| wij dichters van faam. | wir Berühmtheiten. |
Amsterdam, 2023-08-16
the making visible of all kinds of raids (Antjie Krog) - 2022
Poem "die sigbaarmaking van allerlei strooptogte"(collection "Plunder" ["Pillage"])
Collection: Look at me
Tribute to: Krog, Antjie
| Unsolicited | |
| they come to help, so modest -- | |
| is their haughtiness! | |
| Ongevraagd komen | Ungefragt kommen |
| ze helpen, zo bescheiden -- | sie zu Hilfe, bescheiden -- |
| is hun eigendunk! | ihre Eitelkeit!? |
Amsterdam, 2023-02-04
Collection: Migration
| My metamorphic | |
| body dies of the glutton -- | |
| of colonisers. | |
| Mijn wissellichaam | Mein Wechselkörper |
| sterft aan kanker, de veelvraat -- | stirbt an Krebs, dieser Vielfraß -- |
| van kolonisten. | von Kolonisten. |
Amsterdam, 2022-07-30
Collection: Metamorphic body
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The level is rising around |
Amsterdam, 2021-05-18
AD 1100, the beginning of Amsterdam
Almere = Big Lake
Collection: New Ago
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The Lieutenant Colonel is a hero |
Amsterdam, 2021-01-12
With God on our side (Bob Dylan) - 1964
Song
Libby Bacon, the widow of Lieutenant Colonel George Custer managed to embellish in the newspapers his mistakes in "The battle of the Little Bighorn" (1876, on the so-called tributary of the Bighorn in Montana), which was completely won by the Sioux (Lakota), Cheyenne, and Arapaho, as heroic acts
Collections: PumicePieces, Great Flow
Tribute to: Dylan, Bob
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High-level meeting |
Amsterdam, 2019-09-09
Valladolid in 1550
Meeting under the leadership of Charles V, about the atrocities against the Aztecs in Mexico
The settlers defend themselves with arguments from Aristotle (384-322), the moralists put his definition of civilization against that
In 1511 Antonio de Montesinos made the same accusations against the Spanish settlers in Hispaniola
Collection: Half The Work
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Outside, the street is full of roles |
Amsterdam, 2018-04-27
Headquarters of the British police in the Princess Mary Street, Jerusalem, May 19th, 1948
Poem "The Tower" (Charles Simic, 1994, collection "A Wedding in Hell")
Collection: The Praised One
| They give us so much, | |
| their entire culture, but not -- | |
| a life of our own. | |
| Ze willen ons veel | Sie geben uns viel, |
| geven, heel hun cultuur, maar -- | ihre Kultur, aber kein -- |
| geen eigen leven. | eigenes Leben. |
Amsterdam, 2017-06-28
On closer inspection (Han Voskuil) - 1963
Autobiographical novel "Bij nader inzien" - March 26th, 1952, Amsterdam
Collection: Elude
Tribute to: Voskuil, Han
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Amsterdam, 2017-02-15
Mississippi Goddam (Nina Simone) / Plan D, Israel, March 1948 - 1964
Plan D: Israel, March 1948
Song "Mississippi Goddam" (album "Nina Simone in concert")
Collection: The Praised One
Tribute to: Simone, Nina
| Today's new writing: | |
| everyone blows his culture -- | |
| around the whole world. | |
| Het nieuwe schrijven: | Das neue Schreiben: |
| ieder gooit zijn beschaving -- | jeder wirft seine Kultur -- |
| de wereld over. | um die ganze Welt. |
Amsterdam, 2017-01-05
Sir Bumble and Friend Foe (Marten Toonder) - 1953
Comic strip #51 - "Heer Bommel en Vriend Vijand" (tiers 1730-1796), tier 1756
Collections: Puss & Lord, Whirligig Scribbler
Tribute to: Toonder, Marten
