( Deze brief werd op 1 november 2020 gepubliceerd op Medium ) Open (Final) Letter to Senator Bernie Sanders Dear Senator Sanders, Two days before your country’s already nerve-wracking presidential election, the day that Americans face the […]
(for J. S.) EXIT IX – Yesterday, I saw you turn Yesterday, I saw you turn around The corner unintentionally Virtually impossible: a lifetime ago you rambled away Leaving your flashy voice echoing inside my head I thought – no I […]
A birthday song on your birthday the birds sing a distinctive tune, more lightly also slightly profounder a birthday not a Facebook event some stuffs are more serious less frivolous a silent morning in the city I contemplate the ocean its concealed […]
No! I refuse You won’t throw us off your buildings Nor drape your garment of death Around me, I refuse I refuse to be your victim I will not surrender to your Bomb belt nor to your relidiocy I refuse […]
Updated Status Update – thoughts on a seven-year itch I remember very well starting my Face-book, Lee Henigan Alden being my first, only and best Facebook friend. For seven years I’ve tried to make this an entertaining document, […]
Feeling the Bust – IV‑a/b IV‑a Take Bernie Sanders’s long lasting flirtation with Daniel Ortega in the ‘80s. Sanders was invited to the seventh anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution in Managua. By his own boasting account, he was […]
Feeling the Bust – III Looting Funds. Money Laundering. Fraud. These ludicrous accusations were what Jeff Weaver came up with to ‘expose’ the Clinton campaign. Of course nothing illegal was exposed, it was just another low in the smear […]
Feeling the Bust – I – II I The American political discourse won’t cease to surprise and offend us. Its rhetoric, the shamelessly showcased vanity, the blind hatred, blatant misogyny and racism, it seems all so much more exaggerated, […]
Bernie Goes to Rome – II So His Holiness Pope Francis briefly met with Senator Sanders after all. ‘This morning when I was leaving [to Greece ‑AO], Senator Sanders was there, he had come to the convention. He knew […]
Bernie goes to Rome – I Senator Bernie Sanders’s unexpected visit to the Vatican where he spoke at a conference on social and economic justice, was quite an unorthodox campaign move, to say the least. But to address ‘immoral […]
Something’s Berning – I Many of my friends ‘feel the Bern’. I don’t, but I don’t think one needs to feel much in order to observe politics. I’d prefer a rational approach over an emotional one. ‘But you have […]
Heart attack I had this dream: They’d wrapped your heart In transparent foil Toyed it around as were it an American football – throw and catch, Catch it if you can. You didn’t seem to mind much. I tried to catch it. Heartless now You still […]
Hudson River we love the stores on the Hudson River shores or sometimes closed on solemn street corners the obscure the forgotten objects showing their age out of reach, ah those long lazy winter days in that Dutch summer when he took […]
(for Johan Oomen – translation: Peter Mason) EXIT V – Final Chord Hands of the man Who always greeted spring With simple words: The first sun is the best. Hands that put the sun in the sky. Soft hands reaching over a console, Fingers […]
(for Nikki V. – translation: Peter Mason) EXIT IV – Equinox Every time you go south, I steel myself: don’t turn around, Look ahead, don’t look back. Once I did look back, You laughed as you danced out of the street, Around […]
(Translation: Peter Mason) EXIT III – Eclipse What if I lay my forehead gently on yours And my whispering thoughts drip into your soul? What if I hone my words on your stone thoughts, Wilfully confused? What then? Should you then […]
EXIT II – emergency confusion No won’t be yes We will not be me We will not be we Yes won’t be no. Yes I will open You will not enter I will exit No I won’t close. You come you go You wait You go I stay, say no. […]
(for Anja Elizabeth Alden, my daughter) Thirteen I Having climbed the mountain of my childhood Here I stand. On top. Taking a deep breath and taking in. II Now spread your arms and look up and just […]
staying in touch with friends On the day Joseph Parsons passed away, AOL Livestream sent out the following facebook comment: ‘Joseph Parsons is using AOL Lifestream to organize and stay in touch with friends.’ I like to believe […]