Zywa

Let each other live,

forced integration turns out --

wrong for everyone.



Laat elkaar leven,	Jedem sein Leben,
gedwongen integratie --	forcierte Integration --

is voor niemand goed.	nützt doch niemandem.

Poem S2645
Amsterdam, 2025-04-18
Echoing histories (Sinan Çankaya) - 2025
In connection with the personal essay "Galmende geschiedenissen"
Live and let live
The mentality that minorities should adapt in cultural matters, as if integration comes down to that, is colonialist; the point of living together is living according to the rule of law, with respect for everyone's cultural customs
Collection: Truder
Tribute to: Çankaya, Sinan

Zywa Golden Constitution

ARTICLE 1
The state consists of a legislative, an executive and a judicial power. The judicial power organizes itself and functions independently of the legislative and executive powers.

ARTICLE 2
All persons in the Netherlands have equal rights and are treated equally in equal cases. The state does not take into account personal aspects such as beliefs, preferences and physical characteristics.

ARTICLE 3
In the event of a violation or alleged violation of article 2, the state investigates the facts and acts in such a way that they are submitted to the judiciary for assessment.

ARTICLE 4
Unequal opportunities are eliminated as much as possible by the legislator, both in current cases and preventively by organising public order in accordance with article 2.

Poem 5583
Amsterdam, 2024-12-23
Regula Aurea (The Golden Rule), Trias politica
Mahabharata (850 BC): One should never do to another what one considers offensive to oneself. This is the essence of the rule of all righteousness (Dharma)
Veludv?reyya sutta 543 BC, after Boeddha: What is unpleasant and disagreeable to me is also unpleasant and disagreeable to others. How then can I burden another with what is unpleasant and disagreeable to me?
Tobit 4:16 (c. 200 BC): Quid ab alio odis fieri tibi vide ne alteri tu aliquando facias (What you hate to be done to you, see that you never do to another)
Analecta 12:2 AD 200, naar Confucius, 551-479
Keizer Alexander Severus (208-235, keizer vanaf 222): Quod tibi non vis fieri, alteri ne feceris (Do not do unto others what you do not want done to yourself)
Collection: The drama

A life without kings

becomes chaos, unless you --

are in paradise.



Zonder vorst wordt het	Ohne König ist
een chaos, tenzij je in --	es Chaos, es sei denn, man --

het paradijs bent.	lebt im Paradies.

Poem S2219
Amsterdam, 2024-06-13
Victory City (Salman Rushdie) - 2023
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar >> Bisnaga, based on Fatehpur Sikri ('Victory City', near Agra), the capital of Emperor Abdul-Fath Jalaluddin 'Akbar' (= 'the Great' >> 'Akbar the Great')], part 2 Exile, chapter 9-10
Collection: Wind
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman

Here, our fatherland,

oh, my beloved homeland --

the Mighty Mother!



Hier, ons vaderland,	Unser Vaterland,
mijn dierbare thuisland, de --	meine liebe Heimat, die --

Machtige Moeder!	Mächtige Mutter!

Poem H4404
Amsterdam, 2023-12-28
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie) - 1981
Novel, chapter 3-5 "A wedding"
Collection: Shadows
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman

Zywa Here... makes Borders

Here, on the fertile shores
of the crescent moon
we have a good life
We can make a start:

draw borders
build a state
recruit boys and train them
to be border guards

We pay them well
That attracts girls
There is money for extra
children

boys
who don't have to work
in the fields or in town
but can become soldiers

and girls
to care for them
and to serve them, at home
where their place is

within the boundaries
of their husband's state
who serves the country's state
his paternal home

under our leadership
the hard way of the state
in which the tasks are split up
No more equality

Poem 5271
Amsterdam, 2023-09-04
The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality (Angela Saini) - 2023
Study "The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality" / "The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule"
Collection: PumicePieces
Tribute to: Saini, Angela

Zywa Europe 2.1

Charles was the first
King of Spain
a Belgian

from the waterland
of Bruges and Ghent
Mechlin Leuven Brussels

the atria and the ventricles
the heart of Europe
2.1

Charles spoke French
German to his horse
and Italian with women

later also Spanish
to God and the Spaniards
but he preferred to be at home

in the middle of the stream
of the culture, the new
Blessed Empire

Poem 1905
Amsterdam, 2018-11-10
Europe 1: the Romans
Europe 2.0: Otto I and Charlemagne
Collection: Half The Work

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