He tears me apart

wildly without the mercy --


that I die from it.


Hij rijt mij openEr zerfleischt meinen
zonder de genade dat --Leib, ohne die Gnade, dass --

ik eraan doodga.ich daran sterbe.

Poem S2500
Amsterdam, 2025-01-06
Art & Lies, A piece for three voices and a bawd (Jeanette Winterson) - 1994
Novel, chapter Picasso #2
Collection: Truder
Tribute to: Winterson, Jeanette 
 

A girl in the camp

is forced to sing every night --


In her heart she cries.


Er is een meisjeIm Lager zwingen
in het kamp, dat moet zingen --sie ein Mädchen zum Singen --

In haar hart huilt ze.Im Herzen weint sie.

Poem S1522
Amsterdam, 2022-09-30
Different Trains - After the war (Steve Reich) - 1988
Composition for string quartet and three string quartets on tape, performed on September 30th, 2022 in the Organpark by the Dudok Quartet
Deportations --- Union Pacific Railroad --- Conversation between Virginia (Steve Reich's governess), Lawrence Davis (a servant on the Pullman sleeping cars), and Paul, Rachel and Rachella, who survived the extermination of the Jews (Shoah, catastrophe)

Collection: org ANP ark 
Composer: Reich, Steve 
 

I died from the pain,

surprisingly living on --


at half my strength though.


Ik stierf van de pijn,Ich starb vor Schmerzen,
toch leef ik nog, onverwacht --lebe aber immer noch --

maar op halve kracht.halber Kraft jedoch.

Poem S0940
Amsterdam, 2019-10-05
Serious physical damage
Collection: Bruises
 

Zywa The raging

Only the gold and the pearls
of the good golden age
when nobles still thought

they knew the good for everyone
have been passed on in the stories
and the misery you have
to figure in yourself

Well, life tempts you
to forget losses
the stolen cheeses, the dead
buried flowers, cleared graves

It is not all so beautiful
so I rather let my thoughts
rage in my body
than even whisper them

Poem 2314
Amsterdam, 2019-06-28
Collection: BloodTrunk 
 

With a pen I cut

my sadness out of myself --


in order to live.


Met een pen snijd ikMit einem Kuli
uit mezelf mijn verdriet weg --schneide ich den Kummer weg --

want ik wil leven.denn ich will leben.

Poem H2314
Amsterdam, 2018-11-04
The Law of the Barbarians (Hendrik Marsman) - 1926
Poem "Lex Barbarorum"
Collection: WriteWiser signage
Tribute to: Marsman, Hendrik 
 

Far too many lives

are a roller coaster ride:


beaten black and blue.


Veel te veel levensZu viele Leben
zijn een rit in de achtbaan:sind eine Achterbahnfahrt:

bont en blauw gebeukt.grün und blau geprallt.

Poem H2308
Amsterdam, 2018-10-17
Really sexy (Renate Dorrestein) - 2007
Novel "Echt sexy", chapter Together at God's tap
Collection: WriteWiser signage
Tribute to: Dorrestein, Renate 
 

It is a hard world:

with conflicts and broken ties --


No one to be spared.


De wereld is hard:Die Welt ist sehr hart:
strijd en verbroken banden --mit Kämpfen und Trennungen --

Niemand wordt gespaard.Keiner bleibt verschont.

Poem S0729
Amsterdam, 2018-05-27
Profecy of the seeress - 1200
Beginning of the "Edda": "Völuspá"
Collection: Wean Di
 

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