Zywa Big Brother

My big brother wants to be the biggest
He quickly feels wronged
I would owe him

When I disagree with him
I get reproaches as if I'm betraying him
and conspiring with our sisters

As it suits him
he calls me
a little man (fascist)

a sneaky (secret agent)
a mama's boy (communist)
or a selfish (capitalist)

as if I'm taking something from him
and have no right
to exist

outside of hell
or of the colonialism
of his state within the state

Poem 5754
Amsterdam, 2025-12-14
Tractatus theologico-politicus (Theologico-Political Treatise, 1670, Baruch de Spinoza): [1] freedom of expression, [2] an independent judiciary, [3] no 'imperium in imperio' (a State within a State)
Derin devlet (Turkey in the 1990s: 'Deep State', Shadow State)
Collection: PumicePieces
Tribute to: Spinoza, Baruch de 
 

Zywa Defence

Of course, we don't want war
In any case not
in our own country

So soldiers are needed
and they need to practise
to avoid boredom

So we provoke
something across the border
We let them come

while we have already left
Or, if they're stupid
we teach them a lesson

In an ambush
In any case, we teach them
to remain afraid

Poem 5731
Amsterdam, 2025-12-08
Collection: PumicePieces
 

Under dictators

it is unpredictable --


what the past will be.


Onder dictatorsUnter Tyrannen
valt niet te voorspellen wat --ist sie nicht vorhersehbar --

het verleden is.die Vergangenheit.

Poem S2300
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 
 

Zywa Father

At school and on the news
students inherit in stories
the lies and the willingness
to go to war

More is less is the law
of children asking
will be passed over
Father keeps them short

When they undertake something
he should have done himself
he beats them and
breaks it off

He throws crumbs
to the people in their holes
he appeases the hooligans
and critics are open targets

for the silent reproach
of the majority
that they defy father
and do not join

Poem 5512
Amsterdam, 2024-04-23
Djed Moros = (Grand)Father Frost / General Winter
Hobbit: from 'hol-bytla' = hole builder, like a rabbit, which is a fearful animal
Political-philosophical book "Against Democracy" (2016, Jason Brennan): democracies give room to 'Hooligans', who want to be the boss and against facts, hold on to their right, whereby the 'Rationals' ('Vulcans ', named after a race in the TV series 'Star Trek') get into a tight corner because most citizens are passive and superficial 'Hobbits'
"The Moor's Last Sigh" (1995, Salman Rushdie), chapter (4-) 19, about the mayor of Benengeli
Collection: PumicePieces
 

Zywa The flowers stink

Calimeros nick shit shit
on top of the living mountain
boom boom bombing bass
do not wipe their ass

get behind their masks
mish mash mocking heads
the right of their pose
pooh pooh poo haha

smother smile-screw-lala
protest and opposition
in fearing much more most
and flowers on the graves

Whinge and wine too bad oh yeah
of the bra-brave fools
who want to be martyrs
Come and see! Come and see!

They curse what is not black
and threaten oh sigh sigh
boastfully destruction
that no cartoon can contain

Poem 5437
Amsterdam, 2024-03-03
Oligarchs and drug lords
Collection: PumicePieces
 

Cruel potentates

establish 'peace', simply by --


creating wastelands.


Dictators stichtenDie Herrscher stiften
graag 'vrede', door het scheppen --'Frieden', indem sie schaffen:

van woestenijen.Wüste und Ödland.

Poem S1904
Amsterdam, 2023-09-08
On the life and character of Julius Agricola (Publius Cornelius Tacitus) - 98
For example, Russia in Syria and Ukraine
Political biography "De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae" ("On the life and character of Julius Agricola", AD 98, Publius Cornelius Tacitus), § 30: 'Auferre trucidare rapere falsis nominibus imperium, atque ibi solitudinem faciunt, pacem apellant' ('To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire, and where they make a desert they call it peace')
Collection: May the Might
Tribute to: Tacitus, Publius 
 

Zywa Back from not having been away

At home on the couch
I crumple the edges
of the puke bag

The old times, the old songs
the excuses for the postponement
of the promised future

are back, back
from not having been away

We're still at home
in Old Man State, our
freedom was a dream

There are no more musicians
and no more beautiful
girls from Ukraine

The iron cold is back, back
from not having been away

Poem 5234
Amsterdam, 2023-06-09
While my guitar gently weeps (Paul McCartney, The Beatles) - 1968
Song (album "The Beatles" / "The White Album")
Collection: Lilith's Powers
Tribute to: McCartney, Paul; The Beatles 
 

Winter in Moscow:

straw bales in the public parks --


around the statues.


Winter in Moskou:Winter in Moskau:
strobalen in de parken --Strohballen in den Parks, rund --

rondom de beelden.um die Statuen.

Poem H2259
Amsterdam, 2018-08-01
The beginning of spring (Penelope Fitzgerald) - 1988
Novel
Collection: Em Brace
Tribute to: Fitzgerald, Penelope 
 

Absolute silence,

the hand indicates zero:


the taiga, snowy.


Totale stilte,Völlige Stille,
het wijzertje slaat niet uit:der Zeiger bewegt sich nicht:

de taiga, besneeuwd.die Taiga, im Schnee.

Poem H2255
Amsterdam, 2018-07-04
Ashes in bag (Jelle Brandt Corstius) - 2016
Biography "As in tas"
Collection: No wonder
Tribute to: Brandt Corstius, Jelle 
 

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