3.
You're on top of the world,
have millions of plans,
finally feel strong,
but you don't understand
where this creeping, tired feeling is coming from.
You're a brave woman, and you
refuse to lose,
but people around you get scared & confused.
They say it's everywhere,
you're up for a trial,
it's the beginning of the end,
the clock-dial is ticking ...
and all you can do
is wait for the picking
and try see it through,
even though you know it's a
battle you are going to lose.
It's time to be tough,
you know you are strong,
but it's just not enough,
and of course it's unfair,
for something like this you can never prepare ...
But somehow you stay brave
and unafraid of death,
positive 'till the end,
'till the very last breathe.
Let's make like a Rock and Roll
donderdag 23 juni 2011
11 Ways to Die.
2.
you lost your job
the wife is gone
there's no one left
to hear your song
sitting on your chair
at the table
in despair
you realize there's no one there
to hear your vow
and decide to do it
here and now
you fetch a rope
and tie a knot
gone insane
you've lost the plot
you tie it to
the kitchen door
around your neck
leap out the window
and hit the deck
you lost your job
the wife is gone
there's no one left
to hear your song
sitting on your chair
at the table
in despair
you realize there's no one there
to hear your vow
and decide to do it
here and now
you fetch a rope
and tie a knot
gone insane
you've lost the plot
you tie it to
the kitchen door
around your neck
leap out the window
and hit the deck
11 Ways to Die.
1.
Crossing the road you see a child with
its mother by its side,
she smiled, mother seems distressed,
looks around,
grabbing the kid so its safe and sound.
She starts to cry and holds on tight
running quickly to the other side
where she turns around
and pushes the girl onto the ground.
Angrily she kicks the child who
sobs in pain,
whirls around on the road
again,
pushed by her mothers blow, a truck
screeches & approached the show,
the driver sees the scene and knows
the woman is intentionally
keeping the baby down, he tries to
break but it's too late,
the mother's angry hand in fate
has killed the girl who lies unfurled
in a puddle of blood, broken and
curled.
She stares around,
tears stop their flow,
instead her hand reaches down below,
gets out a gun she puts to
her mouth,
without a doubt
she kills herself,
falls over the little girl as
their bloods join in a sea of red,
the driver stands in shock and awe,
not believing what he just saw,
his poor life will never be the
same again,
after this fateful day,
in Beautiful May.
Crossing the road you see a child with
its mother by its side,
she smiled, mother seems distressed,
looks around,
grabbing the kid so its safe and sound.
She starts to cry and holds on tight
running quickly to the other side
where she turns around
and pushes the girl onto the ground.
Angrily she kicks the child who
sobs in pain,
whirls around on the road
again,
pushed by her mothers blow, a truck
screeches & approached the show,
the driver sees the scene and knows
the woman is intentionally
keeping the baby down, he tries to
break but it's too late,
the mother's angry hand in fate
has killed the girl who lies unfurled
in a puddle of blood, broken and
curled.
She stares around,
tears stop their flow,
instead her hand reaches down below,
gets out a gun she puts to
her mouth,
without a doubt
she kills herself,
falls over the little girl as
their bloods join in a sea of red,
the driver stands in shock and awe,
not believing what he just saw,
his poor life will never be the
same again,
after this fateful day,
in Beautiful May.
Voor Jou
Ik schrijf een tekst voor jou, over sprookjes in vreemde landschappen met kleuren die we niet kennen, vliegende elfjes met vlinders van verliefdheid ...
Ik dacht het niet! Wat is er mis met een beetje realisme, praten over politieke idealen die onze vrijheid van meningsuiting op het spel zetten alsof het vier op een rij is, een kinderspel tussen twee kleuren, rood begint maar blauw wint, terwijl de rest toekijkt hoe de steentjes zich opstapelen en de muur langzaam om ons heen staat, niemand meer toelaat, tot we beetje bij beetje stikken in onze eigen kots, als maatschappelijk verslaafde junks, hooked on television, and stuff, and clothes, and shoes, and videogames and luxurious food articles from the Albert Heijn. Commodificatie is onze religie, je kan wel zeggen van niet, maar we weten allebei dat het wel zo is. God is Macht; Macht is een dierlijke eigenschap. Wij zijn allemaal alpha leeuwen in het koninkrijk van het Wilde Westen. Er was ooit een tijd van gemeenschappelijk gedrag, tot iemand met een hek aan kwam en zei "Dit is van mij! En als ik jou hier zie, dan schiet ik je DOOD!".
Ik dacht het niet! Wat is er mis met een beetje realisme, praten over politieke idealen die onze vrijheid van meningsuiting op het spel zetten alsof het vier op een rij is, een kinderspel tussen twee kleuren, rood begint maar blauw wint, terwijl de rest toekijkt hoe de steentjes zich opstapelen en de muur langzaam om ons heen staat, niemand meer toelaat, tot we beetje bij beetje stikken in onze eigen kots, als maatschappelijk verslaafde junks, hooked on television, and stuff, and clothes, and shoes, and videogames and luxurious food articles from the Albert Heijn. Commodificatie is onze religie, je kan wel zeggen van niet, maar we weten allebei dat het wel zo is. God is Macht; Macht is een dierlijke eigenschap. Wij zijn allemaal alpha leeuwen in het koninkrijk van het Wilde Westen. Er was ooit een tijd van gemeenschappelijk gedrag, tot iemand met een hek aan kwam en zei "Dit is van mij! En als ik jou hier zie, dan schiet ik je DOOD!".
dinsdag 21 juni 2011
28.08.2009
You hover on the narrow edge,
tipping Back and Forth,
Ready to leap down flying past
foggy windows where
families sit and wait, ready for
their next Day of Work.
Resting on the swaying branch
moving Up and Down
you can hear a thousand leaves
Rush and Rumble in the Wind.
A raindrop falls and you can see
a Reflection, blinking.
The leaf weighs down heavily, almost
ready to release the drop, it
hangs Magnetized, oscillating into shape.
It falls like a tear, and you dive
to follow its journey down, staring
straight through the water everything
Magnifies out of proportion until
it smashes violently joining a
million other drops in a sea of rain.
tipping Back and Forth,
Ready to leap down flying past
foggy windows where
families sit and wait, ready for
their next Day of Work.
Resting on the swaying branch
moving Up and Down
you can hear a thousand leaves
Rush and Rumble in the Wind.
A raindrop falls and you can see
a Reflection, blinking.
The leaf weighs down heavily, almost
ready to release the drop, it
hangs Magnetized, oscillating into shape.
It falls like a tear, and you dive
to follow its journey down, staring
straight through the water everything
Magnifies out of proportion until
it smashes violently joining a
million other drops in a sea of rain.
23.09.2009
I will write you a rhyme,
he said, that will Change
your Life. My words
Soothe the Mind & I'm sure
I can Help you with your
Inner Strife that comes with
age I'm afraid the moment
of Confrontation cannot be
Delayed, it's a moment you
will have to face Without
the Fear I can see in
your Eyes - they'll eat
you alive, it's what they're
paid for.
He looked at her with Strong-
willed eyes and (she) knew he
Understood.
I know you want to Change
the World but don't blame your-
self, you are right, it's a
Strange & deranged place but
don't leave with haste, things
have a way of being o.k,
and some people aren't that
bad. The Church is a fraud,
let that be a fact - Religion
is simply a Vision of Lies, a
Book to Distract from the Real
truth of Life. Most are kept
Dumb and don't know where
they're from and think we're
all gifts from God and Darwin's
a Fool.
So close your eyes for a
sec and imagine No Wars and
No Guns and No Hate and
think for a minute about all
Twists of Fate that got us
to this place - Never let your
mind go to waste and Never
be ashamed of your Imagination
so Great ...
Now I look in your eyes
and see No signs of Fear, and
I know that you're near to
being Prepared for going out
there without being scared of
all those people that Bite.
So be a Brave Girl, he said,
and listen some more, for I
am not done unfurling
the Truth. My Truth .. the Truth,
it's all interpretation, subjective
as hell.
Wherever you go and Whoever
you speak, take my advice,
and take all critique honest
to Heart, but don't let it
hurt you, he said. You
are a Beautiful girl with
Brains in her head, who
Shan't be mislead or
treated unfair - and Never forget
who you Really are.
I told him he didn't have a very
Strict rhyme scheme, to which
he replied, it's Irrelevant my dear,
whether I speak in rhyme or
I don't, it's clear to me you've
Missed the point and I'm sorry to
see, I hope you've listened to
me whether I'm rhyming or
not. Words are like Life,
either they Flow or they don't
and if you decide to Ride
the wave you better feel
the Heat and taste the
Sea, instead of worrying
about people on Shore,
like me. Your life is yours,
and yours alone, until at one point, it too
is Gone.
So my dear friend, learn
from this old man and please
Act your age and Don't be
afraid of being a child.
You live only once and when
you are Young you want to
be Old, but believe me,
when you are Old, you
want to be Young.
woensdag 9 maart 2011
Quote (De Opkomst van de Tegencultuur p. 57)
¨Une révolution quie demande que l´on se sacrifice pour elle est une révolution à la papa¨
Hoe vaak moet je op je bek gaan
om te begrijpen dat het fouten zijn
die je maakt.
Hoe vaak stoot je jezelf tegen dezelfde
scherpe tafel hoek in het donker
wanneer je s´nachts naar de wc
gaat, half slapend,
voor dat je weet waar de tafel staat?
Of zijn het de fouten die jou
maken. Ben jij iemand die liever
zo nu en dan een kapot
scheenbeen heeft, dan de route
uitstippelen die je foutloos kan
lopen. Is het leven saai zonder
blauwe plekken?
De Boeddha zat rustig in alle stilte op zijn nederige troon na te denken over de vraag van het leven en de dood. Om hem heen vielen bommen en granaten en verkruimelde de stad langzaam maar zeker als stenen die de zee tot zand verpulvert. De gierigheid van de nieuwe, moderne mens was onverwoestbaar en als een ziekte verspreid onder oud en jong. Hij bleef rustig zitten en genoot van de stilte in zijn eigen hoofd, weg van alles wat de wereld verzuurde als oude melk op een warm terras in de zon.Verdwaald in zijn eigen wereld, afgesloten van de rest van de wereld. Honderden jaren bleef de Boeddha in kleermakerszit zitten tot zijn huid van leer leek en zijn eens rijke kledij gemaakt van de fijnste stoffen grijs en verdund over zijn magere lichaam hingen. De natuur om hen heen won en op een dag stierf de laatste mens, alleen en ongelukkig. Boeddha werd wakker toen een vlinder op zijn hoofd landde en in zijn oor fluisterde dat hij eindelijk alleen was met de natuur. Als de laatste mens die deze wereld bewandelde liep hij over de bergen en door de dalen tot hij op een dag aan zijn moeder dacht en haar miste. Ineens voelde hij zich eenzaam en had hij spijt.
Wild in Gevangenschap
Ingetogen Losbandigheid
Enthousiast met Tegenzin
Het Beperkte Wilde Westen
Afhankelijk maar toch Vrij
De tegenstrijdigheden van het leven zijn voor een denkend wezen overal te vinden, in ieder woord schuilt een andere betekenis, achter iedere deur is een andere deur, iedere oplossing roept een nieuw probleem op. Ieder moment is weer een nieuwe reis van onwetendheid - de reis op zoek naar kennis en herkenning. Dat is de reis van het leven.
Schrijven.
¨Af en toe is kijken naar een lege pagina rustgevend en misschien toch niet zo erg ...¨
Dat is wat hij dacht toen hij weer alleen achter zijn bureau zat, starend naar een leeg velletje papier. Hij was schrijver. Ik zeg was omdat hij al een lange tijd niks heeft kunnen schrijven. Hij was het soort schrijver die over zijn leven roddelde en de mensen om hem heen observeerde om vooral naar hun negatieve karakter eigenschappen te gluren en die te verwerken in een negatief verhaal. Hij omhelsde een eenzaam bestaan en putte zijn wilskracht uit de gedachte dat, ook al hij geen vrienden had, de pen en het papier met zijn geest toch een spannende driehoeksverhouding hadden. Zijn frustratie is daarom volkomen begrijpelijk en zijn positiviteit betreft het lege vel papier op zijn bureau benoemenswaardig. Er was een vrij simpele reden voor het tekort aan inspiratie en de vingers konden worden gericht naar zijn eenzaamheid. Hoe kon hij immers mensen observeren als hij geen mensen zag?
De grote reis. Eindelijk is het zo ver, ik ga weg. Weg van hier. Weg van alle herinneringen, alle verbindingen tussen mijn ziel en de hartkloppingen van andere. Losweken van dat emotionele gedoe en al die hebberige mensen die mijn leven vullen en zogenaamd compleet maken. Op reis gaan voor mijzelf, een ontdekkingsreis. De grote reis die mijn leven weer betekenis gaat geven. Het is een hoge eis, ik weet het, en ik moet er zeker voor zorgen dat mijn geluk er niet van af gaat hangen. Een wijze man zei ooit, zet niet al je chips op één kleur, en dat is precies wat ik nu wel ga doen! Ik weet nu al dat ik alles ga vinden waar ik naar op zoek ben en de puzzel stukjes eindelijk een plekje kan geven. Ik stap op de trein en laat de deuren achter mij dichtgaan, ik sluit me af van de donkere, drukke, kloppende sferen van de grote stad en zeg dag tegen al die doelloze zielen die dwalen over de onbelichte paden in het onoverzichtelijke doolhof. Gelukkig kan ik wegrennen.
31.03.2010
The sour faces burn a hole in my soul.
Been left out too long.
Stale air, thick with ignorant, blissful egocentrism polute abandoned streets late at night. Bad energy left lingering from today´s afternoon; feels like a prison, the commercial, commodified cage blurs our vision, you can buy reality rather than live it.
What´s the difference?
Sour faces walk the street on their way to the future, forgetting to pay attention to today. Tomorrow never comes, the sour faces wouldn´t be sour if they realized where they were going.
A Fallacy of Broken Dreams.
Sour faces should be smiling, breathing the fresh scented air feeling the breeze tickle the small hairs on their arms. Strangers eyes locking ...
Communication without words, unafraid, no boundaries. Love at first sight. Sweet smiling faces.
Been left out too long.
Stale air, thick with ignorant, blissful egocentrism polute abandoned streets late at night. Bad energy left lingering from today´s afternoon; feels like a prison, the commercial, commodified cage blurs our vision, you can buy reality rather than live it.
What´s the difference?
Sour faces walk the street on their way to the future, forgetting to pay attention to today. Tomorrow never comes, the sour faces wouldn´t be sour if they realized where they were going.
A Fallacy of Broken Dreams.
Sour faces should be smiling, breathing the fresh scented air feeling the breeze tickle the small hairs on their arms. Strangers eyes locking ...
Communication without words, unafraid, no boundaries. Love at first sight. Sweet smiling faces.
31.03.2010
De zure blik op de ontelbare gezichten die langs ons lopen brand een gat in mijn ziel.
De zure gezichten van al die mensen verpletten het geluk van anderen.
Boosheid om niets wanneer je oog per ongeluk op iemand valt. Starend naar de lucht tussen jullie. Staren mag niet meer. Lachen ook niet.
De zure blikken zijn onderweg naar hun toekomst zoekend naar Het Doel dat ze moeten bereiken voordat de uiterste houdbaarheidsdatum is verstreken. Voor het te laat is, moeten ze op de stoep staan en de bel indrukken. Voordat de hand uit de lucht komt, je oppakt en meeneemt. Voordat het te laat is.
Op Tijd, op Tijd ... op Tijd.
Heb Haast, heb Haast ... heb Haast!
Geen tijd om om mij heen te kijken en aan de bloesem te ruiken.
De bloesem is niet meer belangrijk.
De zure gezichten van al die mensen verpletten het geluk van anderen.
Boosheid om niets wanneer je oog per ongeluk op iemand valt. Starend naar de lucht tussen jullie. Staren mag niet meer. Lachen ook niet.
De zure blikken zijn onderweg naar hun toekomst zoekend naar Het Doel dat ze moeten bereiken voordat de uiterste houdbaarheidsdatum is verstreken. Voor het te laat is, moeten ze op de stoep staan en de bel indrukken. Voordat de hand uit de lucht komt, je oppakt en meeneemt. Voordat het te laat is.
Op Tijd, op Tijd ... op Tijd.
Heb Haast, heb Haast ... heb Haast!
Geen tijd om om mij heen te kijken en aan de bloesem te ruiken.
De bloesem is niet meer belangrijk.
Here Comes the Sun
They were sitting in the back garden. It was mid-summer and still quite warm outside even though it was so early in the morning that the sun was still hiding. The full moon´s glare made the garden look quite eerie. The table they sat at proudly honoured signs of a wild night, in fact, there was hardly any table left. Empty glasses, overflowing ashtrays, notebooks, drunken scribbles, a wealthy pile of hash, skins, roach, pens, an almost empty bottle of whiskey, wine, empty, squashed beercans dirty with ash and cigaratte butts. This was an impressive sight considering there had only been just the two of them. Big black eyes boasted intriguing conversations. The pitch-black night was starting to brighten, the sun was on it´s way.
¨Look George, up, up, up!!!¨ He turned around and reached for the acoustic quitar leaning against the other side of the table and started to play.
George started humming, ¨here comes the sun ... dun, dun, dun¨
¨I quite like that! Cigarette?¨George asked as he reached for the pack, first sticking one in Eric´s mouth, lighting it and then supplying himself. For a second there was complete silence and they both concentrated on the early birds humming their morning song in the background ...
¨It´s alright, innit? Moments like these, life isn´t as cruel as I thought it was¨ Eric sighed and doodled on the guitar.
Here Comes the Sun,
It´s Alright!
Voor Papa.
(Ramblings) Notes after having missed a night.
Freedom. Something we think we have. Take it for granted, like running Water and Bread. In some nations it´s true but in the ones it´s not, freedom is an illusion. You Pray & Pay but you´re not ... free ... don´t even know what it means. Tired at work, it´s become routine, fingering the flag as long as it wipes the sleight clean.
Forgiveness isn´t something to ask for, it doesn´t come for free, moral battles of loyalty is what makes the skin breathe.
People have great stories to tell you, all about life, insecurities they understand & still they ask for insidious delirium, foreign sounding words mock my inferior design, with care and compasion, no A* for you, failed with (compasion)
Crazy how to rhyme, impossible design of flow, uncompromized, no direction to go, en nu in het Nederlands, misschien ... niet mogelijk, moet (NU!) stoppen.
Shine on (You Crazy Diamond)
¨He´s like a beautiful stone, He is, like a gem ... Sorry I´m not so good with words, not like you are ... A Diamond! That´s it ... He´s like a Diamond! We met a long time ago, both quite young, he was so full of life.
Somewhere along the line something happened to him, no one really understood or knew what went wrong but we all noticed.
His beauty, his creativity, it all went weird, he turned in on himself.
It´s hard to call a person crazy you know, who are we to label?
Maybe we´re the crazy ones. Anyhow, he kinda disappeared. Every once in a while someone would see him, but there was never again any communication.
I never stopped loving him ...¨
¨Don´t think I ever told anyone that!¨
Voor Papa.
A Laugh
One day I forgot how to laugh. It was a gradual change I noticed, I still found things funny but I couldn´t express it anymore, like my face muscles had frozen in a permanent frown, even my eyebrows, my nose ... Even my nose!
You wouldn´t expect a nose to have any meaningful contribution to the laughing process but, believe me, that day I found out that the subtlety of the nostral flare completed the kick of an honest, heart-felt laugh.
You wouldn´t expect a nose to have any meaningful contribution to the laughing process but, believe me, that day I found out that the subtlety of the nostral flare completed the kick of an honest, heart-felt laugh.
Freestyle to Music.
Writing on the Wall. Walking down the street, it is hot, the sun shines relentlessly down on us little people like ants in a mole hill.
Are you listening? Can you hear that, or am I the only one? I think you can, I can see a secret smile in your eye shine as your face reflects in my sunglasses. Just for a moment, a connecton, a feeling. You can hear my music. Our heart beats coincide. It´s warm. I´m going nowhere, your going in the opposite direction. Further and further away from each other. Alone again, strong oncemore, just me, the breeze, my energy, the music, the sunshine, everyone else against me. Gotta love it.
Been walking for hours, days, months ... My whole life. The soals (souls) of my feet are hardened, cracked. It doesn´t hurt anymore. Walking is just an idea, it´s become what I do, I walk my life away, looking for others to share the weight, others walking my Way, a Path, a Road to nowhere, everywhere ... It´s all the same, walking in circles around the same building for hours, months, years.
My path is a trench. A trench other people jump over because they don´t dare cross it.
Are you listening? Can you hear that, or am I the only one? I think you can, I can see a secret smile in your eye shine as your face reflects in my sunglasses. Just for a moment, a connecton, a feeling. You can hear my music. Our heart beats coincide. It´s warm. I´m going nowhere, your going in the opposite direction. Further and further away from each other. Alone again, strong oncemore, just me, the breeze, my energy, the music, the sunshine, everyone else against me. Gotta love it.
Been walking for hours, days, months ... My whole life. The soals (souls) of my feet are hardened, cracked. It doesn´t hurt anymore. Walking is just an idea, it´s become what I do, I walk my life away, looking for others to share the weight, others walking my Way, a Path, a Road to nowhere, everywhere ... It´s all the same, walking in circles around the same building for hours, months, years.
My path is a trench. A trench other people jump over because they don´t dare cross it.
zaterdag 5 februari 2011
.. Muis ..
Er loopt een muis door mijn huis
Ik hoor haar knagen achter in de
hoek, onder die plank bij de
platen. Ik geloof dat ik bang ben
voor muizen, maar ach, het
zijn ook maar kleine diertjes die
honger hebben en uit hun huis zijn
gejaagd door de boormachines op
straat net zoals wij.
Ready to go?
The never ending, somewhat nefarious
process of getting ready to go outside can be
such a daunting process that it is sometimes
easier to simply say "no".
The Egg
So I was sitting in my egg, minding my own, private business, when a young gentleman offers his apologies and asks whether he's allowed to join me in my egg. I stare at him with the blankest eyes I could throw, think for a second or three, and reply that "of course you can!" it is after all a public egg and who am I to refuse him entry. My only demand was that he had to sit on the far end so, if anything awkward happened in our safe egg space I am the one who can escape before him. (It's only fair, right? A little selfish perhaps but who is he to invade my private space egg anyway?) I climb out, move my stuff as to make some room for his stuff and he climbs in, offering me a dull glance as he shuffles into the egg and makes himself comfortable. I climb back in, slightly confused as to whether or not I made the right decision letting a stranger into my egg, but I try and ignore my instincts and get on with it.
He sits restlessly and I can hear his thoughts planning devious attempts at bonding with me in this egg. He offers me some water, shuffles some more, I inhale deeply and smell the musty odor (is it alcohol or just the smell of not having showered or washed his clothes on a regular basis?) radiating from him and pulsating through this once so peaceful and safe egg-space I found. I wish someone would come and save me from this awkwardness and quickly I realize it is time for me to save myself. Secretly I plan a cunning escape route, soundlessly I gather my possessions, apologetically I pardon myself, and as I grab my belongings and drop half the contents, I refuse to let him help me, and swiftly I run away from the egg I so proudly found and felt secure in. Whatever ... I guess there are plenty of other eggs in the sea.
He sits restlessly and I can hear his thoughts planning devious attempts at bonding with me in this egg. He offers me some water, shuffles some more, I inhale deeply and smell the musty odor (is it alcohol or just the smell of not having showered or washed his clothes on a regular basis?) radiating from him and pulsating through this once so peaceful and safe egg-space I found. I wish someone would come and save me from this awkwardness and quickly I realize it is time for me to save myself. Secretly I plan a cunning escape route, soundlessly I gather my possessions, apologetically I pardon myself, and as I grab my belongings and drop half the contents, I refuse to let him help me, and swiftly I run away from the egg I so proudly found and felt secure in. Whatever ... I guess there are plenty of other eggs in the sea.
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