Zywa

Zywa Good King Henry

When I join them to the dump
to look for porn magazines
because the women's poses
enchant me, I'm one of them

But otherwise, I'm tolerated
My classmates think I'm weird
I walk strangely, like falling forward
And if I'm right, I want to get it too

Then I'm the prof or Good King Henry
I talk too much, know too much
and far too often know better
also when it comes down to it

to what you're not supposed to do:
swear, snatch apples
shoot the birds
lock up the gym teacher

put drawing pins on the
substitute's chair, steal candy, or
sweep the snow for an old man
and then ask him for money

Poem 5928
Amsterdam, 2026-02-26
My Struggle - 3. Boyhood Island (Karl Ove Knausgård) - 2009
Autobiographical novel "Min Kamp. Tredje bok" (translation 2014), part 4, autumn 1977 at Sandness primary school on the isle of Tromøya (third grade, almost 9 years old)
Collection: Leaving
Tribute to: Knausgård, Karl Ove

All vices and crimes:

empathise and know, you are --

capable of it.



Ondeugd en misdaad:	Laster, Verbrechen:
leef je in en weet, je bent --	fühle dich ein und wisse --

zelf ertoe in staat.	du könntest das auch.

Poem H4091
Amsterdam, 2023-08-30
The waiter and the living (Simon Vestdijk) - 1949
Actors and people. Nothing human is alien to me.
Novel "De kellner en de levenden", chapter VII. Rehearsals
Collection: Inmost [2]
Tribute to: Vestdijk, Simon

Satan and sex, in

all appearances, and slugs:

enemies enough!



Satan en seks, in	Satan und Sex, in
al hun gedaanten, en slakken:	vielen Formen, und Schnecken:

vijanden genoeg!	ja, Feinde genug!

Poem S1826
Amsterdam, 2023-07-25
Oranges are not the only fruit (Jeanette Winterson) - 1985
Novel, part "Genesis"
Collection: No wonder
Tribute to: Winterson, Jeanette

Zywa Evill Will

Forgive me
I don't want to explain away
the fact that I needed time

to put the consequences
of one or the other
together

The appearances may be against me
but I didn't hold aloof
really, I never wait and see

I don't look away
I just look thoroughly
for a well-considered decision

because so much is happening
and often there is no clear line
in all the details

And I don't want to do anything wrong
That is the seed
of my passivity

My aversion to misdeeds

Poem 5209
Amsterdam, 2023-05-20
Evill Will: Passivity (out of aversion to misdeeds)
About misdeeds: poem 5185. Evill Intent
Collection: The drama

Forgive all vices,

for everyone goes along --

with God and the stars?



Vergeef ondeugden,	Vergib Laster, denn
de mensen schikken zich, naar --	die Menschen passen sich Gott --

God en de sterren?	und den Sternen an?

Poem S1769
Amsterdam, 2023-05-20
The Tragedie of King Lear (William Shakespeare) - 1606
Theatre play, 1^st act, 2^nd scene, Edmund, son of the Earl of Gloucester:
"This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, - often the surfeits of our own behaviour, - we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on."
Collection: Rasping ants
Tribute to: Shakespeare, William

Zywa Big Bad Wolf

I dare to get into bed with you
Your big mouth is too small
for the world, your heart too big

for me, here I am
Well, tell, then I'll dream
with you, about you

in a purple cloak
the skin of innocence and power
Very discreetly, very discreetly

you take revenge
on anyone who does not get into action
and just lets everything happen

You issue wise orders
that camouflage your agenda
Much trouble for nothing

for though you loathe them
they are not another species
they are like you

only not angry enough
to be able to choose
what is important

That is the seed
the seed of your anger
Everyone's passivity

Poem 5206
Amsterdam, 2023-05-19
Big Bad Wolf: Anger (out of aversion to other people's passivity)
About passivity: poem 5209. Evill Will
Collection: The drama

Zywa Evil Child

Hand over my mouth, I laugh
at the evil child
you are, who wants everything
as it should be

a better world
justice, equality
and brotherhood, now!

No longer an ideal
that makes fellow human beings suffer
in order not to lack anything themselves

So immature, not you
your complaint, your desire
for more

more solidarity
more harmony
more self-criticism

I know, the seed
of your gluttony
which wants all that
is your sweet anger

Poem 5203
Amsterdam, 2023-05-18
Evil Child: Gluttony (for justice, equality and brotherhood, solidarity, harmony and self-criticism, out of anger at the lack of them in society)
About anger: poem 5206. Big Bad Wolf
Collection: The drama

Zywa Evil World

The night is safe. Come
Whatever goes wrong
you did what you could do

Come. You want too much
love and appreciation
from others for each other

and fewer regulations
fewer regulators
who interfere

and, like puppets
decide your fate
Mistakes are forbidden

They're in the system
and that's being worked on
Come. Over is the day

in which the seed lies
the seed of your fear
Your gluttonous love

Poem 5200
Amsterdam, 2023-05-17
Evil World: Fear (from a gluttonous need for love, comfort and security you fear, thinking you cannot function in the social system)
About gluttony: poem 5203. Evil Child
Collection: The drama

Zywa Evil Boss

We live a sober life, enough
is enough for me, and reserves
are necessary according to you

Everything is insured, luckily
no loans, we are working hard
because otherwise one has nothing

The children have their own lives
they won't take care of us
and are already asking for part

of their portion of inheritance, but it's stuck
in stone, in vaults, and in your head
that also wants to cover the coverage

People should grow up
and take care of themselves
reap their own harvest

though we could share more
relying on mutual aid
not just on our own character

in which lies the seed
the seed of greed
Our fear

Poem 5197
Amsterdam, 2023-05-16
Evil Boss: Greed (for fear that others will not help you)
About fear: poem 5200. Evil World
Collection: The drama

Zywa Evil Fairy

Always just joy and happiness
would be boring, but what can I
know about something that doesn't occur?

It would also be unfair, indeed
unbearable, if fairy tales
could be real

I don't begrudge my friends anything
as long as we go well together
and they don't flaunt

their children
being in the clover
or other prosperity

I avoid neighbours and colleagues
who like to brag about
additions and gadgets

I can miss those things
but Gladstone Gander's certainty
that there will always be enough

the blessing of good fortune
I would like to have that
And therein lies the seed

the seed of my envy
my greed, so that I can show
that I am blessed

Poem 5194
Amsterdam, 2023-05-15
Evil Fairy: Envy (out of the need to have a blessed life yourself)
About greed: poem 5195. Evil Boss
Collection: The drama

Zywa Evil Tongue

There must be misery hidden
behind glitter and gold
wouldn't it?

We talk about it, right away
if there's anything suspicious
A child staying at home

grandma on a visit for a week
a new nanny
or a long business trip

Call it gossip
It is the cement
of our neighbourhood

And we know very well
that it is possible
it is not true

And this is the seed
the seed of our slander
Our envy

Poem 5191
Amsterdam, 2023-05-14
Evil Tongue: Slander (gossiping about neighbours and acquaintances, out of envy of their lives)
About envy: poem 5194. Evil Fairy
Collection: The drama

Zywa Evil Eye

I'm not vain, I'm noble
Beyond reproach
I know the world, the people

with their little souls
their little minds
and little worries

I understand them, I see
the guilt and the shame
with which they punish themselves

for their lies
to keep the corpses
hidden in their wardrobe

I can guess them though
and I pass them on in a whisper
like a gear, a compelling eye

That's just how it works
Thanks to these seeds
I am exemplary

The seeds of my high-
handed, high-minded ideas
So practical, my slander

Poem 5188
Amsterdam, 2023-05-13
Evil Eye: Pride (after slandering people you consider inferior, look down on them with a compelling eye)
About slander: poem 5191. Evil Tongue
Collection: The drama

Zywa Evill Intent

The people here
are not quite grown up
They live past inconveniences

So I'm gonna settle it
Like a parent for their own good
Comment is all in the game

I don't mind, we have to move on
Who does not act, is manipulated
and my own preferences
don't appear out of the blue
I have experience

I chip and wipe away the chips
I am a doer, a maker
No expensive gestures
no desperate remedies
to reassure desperate patients

I know what I'm doing, there are goals
to achieve and worlds to win
with ambition

the seed of my misdeeds
my taunted pride
to want to achieve something

Poem 5185
Amsterdam, 2023-05-12
Evill Intent: Misdeed (out of pride, subordinating fellow human beings "for their own good" to an interest that has your preference)
About pride: poem 5188. Evil Eye
Collection: The drama

Will people ever

love the earth, their mother, more --

than all their vices?



Kunnen mensen meer	Könnten die Menschen
houden van de aarde dan --	Mutter Erde mehr lieben --

van hun ondeugden?	als ihre Laster?

Poem S1743
Amsterdam, 2023-04-22
O fragile earth a mass for the new covenant (Antjie Krog) - 2020
"O brose aarde - 'n misorde vir die nuwe verbond" - Opening statement, performed in the Organpark on April 22^nd, 2023 under the direction of Gonny van der Maten
Collection: org ANP ark
Tribute to: Krog, Antjie

Just sully your hands

and cover them, draw the veil --

of your black money.



Maak je handen vuil,	Mach dir die Hände
bedek ze met de mantel --	schmutzig, unter dem Mantel --

van jouw zwarte geld.	deines Schwarzgeldes.

Poem S1637
Amsterdam, 2023-01-11
Three Colours: White - Equality (Krzysztof Kieslowski) - 1993
Karol
Film "Trzy kolory: Bialy" - Równo??
Collection: The drama
Tribute to: Kieslowski, Krzysztof

The vanity and

the lies of people are carved --

into their headstones.



Lees de ijdelheid	Lese die Lügen
en de leugens van mensen --	und den Dünkel der Menschen --

op hun grafstenen.	auf den Grabsteinen.

Poem S1630
Amsterdam, 2023-01-06
Two twin beds (Luigi Pirandello) - 1909
Story "Due letti a due"
Collection: Appearances
Tribute to: Pirandello, Luigi

Really every lie

does need a decent wardrobe --

of nice eloquence.



Elke leugen heeft	Doch! Jede Lüge
een garderobe nodig --	braucht eine Garderobe --

van welsprekendheid.	der Beredsamkeit.

Poem S1629
Amsterdam, 2023-01-05
The wardrobe of eloquence (Luigi Pirandello) - 1908
Story "Il guardaroba dell'eloquenza"
Collection: Actively Passive
Tribute to: Pirandello, Luigi

Zywa The meekness of God

People are abusing and disputing
and this was not foreseen -
an unwanted consequence
of their autonomy

Of course God can change his mind

Away with creation!
Away with the parting of the waters
in heaven and on earth!

A flood, and over the bygones!
One more time! Different plan!
Come on, a new beginning
a salvation and the acceptance
that there just is evil

in man, but softened
by the new progenitor
who promises to behave well
towards the earth and the people
and to be careful of them

Poem 4889
Amsterdam, 2022-12-12
Moral Wickedness: Genesis 6:5,11-13
Change his mind: Genesis 6:6-7,13
Change his mind a second time: Genesis 6:8-9, 8:21
New progenitor: Noah
Study "Words become Worlds" (1994, Ellen van Wolde): § 6, an enlarged version of the publication "Noah and God in the Story of the Flood" (1991)
Collection: A Home

The believers can

wipe their lusts, greeds and cravings --

on any priest's ears.



Gelovigen vegen	Gläubige wischen
hun lusten en driften af --	sich ihre Lüste und Gier --

aan priesteroren.	am Priesterohr ab.

Poem S1494
Amsterdam, 2022-08-13
The next story (Cees Nooteboom) - 1991
Novella "Het volgende verhaal"
Confession
Collection: High gear
Tribute to: Nooteboom, Cees

Zywa Metapsychics

Thinking about life is disconnecting
the two as much as possible
taking a distance, an unobstructed view

from an ivory tower
observing with all-hearing ears
and eyes that recognize everything

capable to understand
everybody's daily ignoring
of the deadly sins, those old

lessons about the pride
to consider yourself higher and to think
to live in a better way than others

time and again clearly measured
on a standard of your own
which you review from time to time

by climbing the tower to look
at the foolishness of the people
and be above it

Poem 4582
Amsterdam, 2022-07-11
Collection: The drama

Authorities, act!

Really, I do want to change --

so help me! Force me!



Overheid, doe iets!	Regierung, mach was!
Echt, ik wil veranderen --	Echt, ich möchte mich ändern --

dus help me! Dwing me!	Hilf mir! Ja, zwing mich!

Poem S1411
Amsterdam, 2022-05-21
Accomplice (Aaf Brandt Corstius) - 2019
Column "Medeplichtig" (collection "Jan Wolkers - Winterbloei")
Collection: Wean Di
Tribute to: Brandt Corstius, Aaf

Sometimes I want to

cast stones, but do I have to --

throw on myself first?



Soms wil ik dringend	Manchmal möchte ich
stenen werpen, maar moet dat --	Steine werfen, soll das dann --

echt eerst op mezelf?	zuerst auf mich selbst?

Poem S1341
Amsterdam, 2022-02-18
John 8:7
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
Collection: Half The Work

Zywa Myseums

Giants lived here, we collected their bones
in museums, their spirits in myseums
of status and power, pride and desire

We are the shining oil lamps
in which the spirits live on wishes
that we sometimes cannot control

Then one escapes
and he roams the earth
that gives him weight and makes him heavy

a giant who is way too big
for our world and people
are challenged by him

to unite
against him before all hell breaks loose
destroying everything

Helicopters roar across the country
and turn crazy
in fearfully hiding heads

Time is ticking louder

Poem 2549
Amsterdam, 2019-12-17
Bones: of dinosaurs
Collection: The Yellow House Museum

If you have to choose,

it's wise to choose the evil --

that you can conceal.



Als je moet kiezen,	Wenn du wählen musst,
kies dan altijd voor het kwaad --	wähle immer das Böse --

dat verhulbaar is.	das du tarnen kannst.

Poem S0884
Train Amsterdam-Vlissingen, 2019-06-04
Maurits and the facts (Gerrit Krol) - 1986
Novel "Maurits en de feiten", § 10
Collection: On the fly
Tribute to: Krol, Gerrit

Bad things don't exist

as long as they are hidden --

as if only thought.



Iets slechts bestaat niet	Es gibt nichts Böses,
zolang het verborgen is --	solange es versteckt ist --

zoals wat je denkt.	wie ein Gedanke.

Poem S0885
Train Amsterdam-Vlissingen, 2019-06-04
Maurits and the facts (Gerrit Krol) - 1986
Novel "Maurits en de feiten", § 10
Collection: On the fly
Tribute to: Krol, Gerrit

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