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Kushal Jul 2023
Dissecting the world.
Eyes like hands,
Do the work of the mind.

Fearful of tremors.
Thoughts unchecked leave one unsteady.
Worry with every shake,
And eternity expands from a moment.

The hand cannot be stayed.
The eyes cannot be closed.

What medicine quells,
When the eyes glare at themselves?
Zywa May 2023
I think of thinkers
who describe other sides
of the old stories
and the new talk

who observe what is there
as new and notice something
other than is accepted and
put that into reality

Precisely this responding
to what is already there
is originality
or the illusion of it

In an earlier time
I would have been such a thinker
but now it is of no use
in the easy lives

of well-to-do citizens, no use
to outcasts, no use
to outsiders, no use
to my heirs
Consumer society

"One-Dimensional Man. Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society" (1964, Herbert Marcuse)

Collections "The light of words" and "Life line"
Zywa May 2023
The short summary,

summarised just one more time:


Wait! What's it about?
Collection "The light of words"
Zywa Mar 2023
I am a thinker:

although, can I think away --


sedimented thoughts?
Sunyata = absence of mental disturbances (and absence of an illusory self)

Collection "BloodTrunk"
Zywa Feb 2023
He brings in a lot,

pages full of arguments --


so, something is wrong.
Qui s'excuse s'accuse (Who offers excuses, accuses himself)

"Het Bureau - Het A.P. Beerta-Instituut" ("The Office - The A.P. Beerta-Institute", 1998, Han Voskuil), page 613

Collection "Not too bad [1974-1989]"
Zywa Nov 2022
On the photo you don't see
that the water stands still
and you can think

that the sea has almost taken
the land and the house
will soon drift away

A person just has to take
other points of view
to find out something

and to keep living in the world
not in appearances, not in set
pieces of one's own fantasy

empty, unless actors populate them
of whom you no longer know after a while
whether they are acquaintances of you

but your own images nestle
in your head, they fit exactly
whereas the world is uncomfortable
"House By An Inlet" (1930, Edward Hopper)

Collection "NightWatch"
Zywa Aug 2022
The Oracle knows

what I want, that's what she gives --


me as her advice.
Mentorship

"Hoog en laag springen - Faxen aan Ger #4" ("Like it or not - Faxing Ger #4", December 20th, 1999, published 2021, Nicolien Mizee)

Collection "Out of place"
Heavy Hearted Apr 2021
a small group of individuals
bound by the intersectionality
of their detriments
meet;

and although alone we stand
in head and heart and hand
together the mind and the heart gave birth
to something each of us forgot were worth:

when we are together, a real person is born
not through the perceptivity of gore and of ****-
but of virtue and strength being visible not
to anyone other than us 3 who forgot.
for Irving and Morgan
Oh if I could **** money
I would
If my **** tasted like honey
In all likelihood
There would be people paying to taste it
That's how I'd make it
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