I despise myself

for everything I can't do --


like other students.


Ik veracht mezelfIch verachte mich
om alles wat ik niet kan --für das, was ich nicht tun kann --

zoals anderen.wie die anderen.

Poem S1795
Amsterdam, 2023-06-14
Child between four women (Simon Vestdijk) - 1972
Novel "Kind tussen vier vrouwen", written in 1933, § 7 (AD 1910)
Collection: Inmost [1]
Tribute to: Vestdijk, Simon 
 

With a clean duster,

the maid goes around the house --


waving like a queen.


Met een stofdoek doet,Mit dem Staubtuch macht
de werkster het huis, wuivend --die Putzfrau das Haus, winkend:

als een koningin.eine Königin.

Poem H3757
Amsterdam, 2023-03-15
Fury (Salman Rushdie) - 2001
Novel, § 14
Collection: Sludge
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman 
 

He's a Pole, wishing

for a Frenchwoman: Europe --


true equality!


Als Pool wil hij graagEr ist Pole, er
een Française: Europa --wünscht sich eine Französin:

gelijkwaardigheid!Europa, Gleichheit!

Poem H3659
Amsterdam, 2023-01-11
Three Colours: White - Equality (Krzysztof Kieslowski) - 1993
Communist equality and true equality
Film "Trzy kolory: Bialy" - Równo?? (Karol and Dominique)

Collection: Local traffic
Tribute to: Kieslowski, Krzysztof 
 

Talking and joking,

with you, here, at my home, but --


it's not a visit!


Praten en grapjes,Reden und Witze,
met jou, hier, bij mij thuis, maar --mit dir, hier, bei mir, aber --

je bent geen bezoek!du bist kein Besuch!

Poem H3538
Amsterdam, 2022-10-28
Collection: On living on [1]
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk 
 

Zywa The Chameleon

My heart is not smiling
my eyes are watchful
I am a chameleon

From my cave, I crawl
cautiously through my life
wet when it rains

arid when the sun burns
shy under the leaves
when the masters go by

who don't want to see me
their eyes don't smile
it is a game

that doesn't make me happy
I dream chameleon dreams
of a smooth, uniform skin

that can always be the same
I dream of shedding my skin
that way for once, like a snake

Poem 2202
Amsterdam, 2019-04-10
Once upon a time (Gabriel Okara) - 1989
Poem
Collection: Lilith's Powers
Tribute to: Okara, Gabriel 
 

Zywa Rewrite the rules

Your house can be my house
our house, a nice house
I love you

if you don't want to be more
than I am and want to be more
than you are, not a boy

but a man who dares
to see me as Í see me
then you'll see more

of reality than you think
you see with your self-conceit
Look carefully, look better, I am

not a lesser man, I am
more than your expectations
How far do you dare?

Poem 1985
Amsterdam, 2018-12-13
"Rewrite the rules" is the appeal in an Always infomercial, calling up to rewrite the male rules of society
Collection: I am
 

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