You Lose

in the field of politics

cheering like some fanatic at your party's victory

You lose!

Time

"tijd om mij eens te vervelen/ time (for me) to be bored once." - Jan Paternoster  and Jan is sorry for all the people who do not have this time because they are kept far too busy.

Radical

the wide difference

art and life

the one is volatile enough to be able to be radical in order for the other not to be (radical)

Delay

and have a second look

revisit and reassess

It's not exactly like having second thoughts but rather second sight - seeing clear(er).

Trouble

nothing is easy though it must be done swift

always listening to Hamlet's resolution he laboured so hard for that "Readiness is all."

As a Child

there was, since I was living on the border, always a strong sense of the limiting quality of such a state prevailing in my mind. So one day I saw an opera-singer on television and realising she was German I pressed my grandparents to tell me where she was living. I argued that it could not be too far away because down the street there were the Netherlands. As I kept on pestering them they finally gave in and told me that she was living on the Roermonder Straße.

Bear With Me

Years ago you teased me, telling me that I was behaving like a little girl, when I really ought to face the results of my actions.

You in your immobile mobility being attached to the machine that kept you alive and me talking from afar with you by the grace of the one finger you could still move. I always imagined some sort of smile on your face while you were confronted by my mad anxieties.

I love you and I miss you!