To know (a poem)

Knowing your borders

and inviting her to cross them.

Knowing your limits

and asking her to push them.

Knowing what you want

and knowing she knows too.

Knowing you both want to dance

both knowing that you do.

Knowing that sometimes

knowing is all you need

to know.

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Politicians and other marketeers love to play 'the people'

Politicians and other marketeers love to play 'the people' with old grudges: 'Remember how they stole our land (Israel/Palestine: 3000; USA: 300; WW2 victims: 75) years ago?’

Samsom wasn't the first Israelite to fight the people in the (ever growing smaller) area we now know as Palestine. Back then the people living there were called Philistines. Both names are derived from Peleset. 'Sea people', as I've come to understand. But may be wrong of course because not all sources are 100 percent correct. Especially when something occured a long time ago.

Even though the current situation has nothing to do with the old grudge between the Isrealites (a mix of the people of Canaan (current Palestine) and the people that fled from Egyptian oppression (the story of Moses, remember?) and the Philistines (a people that most likely originally came from Crete), the people of Israel (mainly Jews from all over the world who weren't rich enough to stay where they were after WW II and were 'promised' a new homeland to live) and Palestine (mainly descendents of Canaanites and the same mix of people that resulted in the existence of the people we came to know as Jews. Resulting in the people of Palestine and Isreal sharing their DNA) are still not friends.

The fact that two peoples 'hate' one another is being exploited by [arms dealers] politicians and marketeers.

Marketeers? Absolutely. Commerce has a lot to gain from friction between two sides. Just look at the orange coloured merchandise being sold when there's a football match between The Netherlands and Germany; the Dutch still 'hate' the Germans because of WW II. And the loss of a worldcup match in 1974. For a few weeks in The Netherlands it doesn't matter who you vote, what your skincolour is or what your income is. As long as you wear a piece of orange clothing, you're all 'comrades in the war against Germany'.  

A famous example is how this is exploited in the USA: billions of dollars are made in the 'fights' between College and University teams. Creating division is a proven way to manipulate people and gain wealth and power. 

'Panem et ludos' the Romans called it. And it worked. Sports have always been used by politicians to push a political agenda. Remember how Adolf Hitler used the Berlin Olympics of 1936 as a propaganda tool? He wanted to show the world that white people were mentally and physically superior to 'Untermenschen', aka 'people of lesser races' like gypsies, jews (circling back to the first paragraph) and people with darker skin.

Some history books say it's why he didn't acknowledge the amazing achievements (four gold medals!) by one Jesse Owens (click. Very interesting story), grandson of an actual African-American slave. It's true he didn't shake hands with the man who was the overall 'man of the match' at the '36 Olympics. But Hitler didn't shake hands with any of the winners. Not even with the 'Pure blood Arian' ones. Hitler didn't like to touch people. It's why he didn't get biological children, I guess. Thinking of another famous germaphobe (click) who was also the leader of a country and didn't like immigrants. 

For political but more and more for commercial reasons, people willingly forget their stance on issues they find important in discussions, but not in business. As a matter of fact, purely for commercial reasons sponsoring was invented. By a company known as Adidas. 

An actual Nazi by the name of Adi Dassler (get it? Adi-das?) personally handcrafted a pair of sneakers for a black man who would make history as one of the greatest athletes of all time: Jesse Owens.

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After Dark (a circle poem)

Water after dark

flowing in unknown directions

of future memories

while we wonder

what happened to the feelings

we once had

thinking of

water after dark

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Is living in fear 'just a fact'?

It's terrible to live in constant fear. 

WEF

Transgenders

Gay people

Black people

The Great Reset

Vaccines

Facemasks

Chemtrails

Joe Biden

Cancel culture

The Large Hadron Collidor

That the World Economic Forum was founded in the seventies as a way of helping the economy in every country in the world is 'just a fact'. Just like there have always been transgender and gay people, people with many different skin colours, et cetera.

Doing things 'completely different' than how they were is what scared people want. And exactly what The Great Reset talks about.

Vaccines are really not developed to kill people or make them dependent of 'Big Pharma'. Yes, sometimes people die from side effects. But more people die of not being vaccinated. But that too is 'just a fact'. Like you don't die if you wear a facemask for more than twenty minutes. Or are all doctors and welders zombies?

Chemtrails simply do not exist and wanting to cancel books, tv-shows and what not because you are 'against cancel culture!' is plain silly.

The scientists at CERN research 'the existence of all' so they have nothing to gain by opening a portal to hell or to cause a black hole that will destroy our planet because 'all' will be lost. And what if they do accidentally create a large Black Hole? We won't even have time to say 'Oh, oh!' because we and all we know will have become one extremely large and thin 'spaghetti string'.

Why are people scared to death of a fragile old man who's really just a spokesperson for a gigantic team that's in charge of a country? 'Of course I'm not afraid of Joe Biden but I'm simply afraid he will take away my guns and kill us all with vaccines!'

So what are people who claim they are 'afraid of nothing!' really afraid of?

Could it be because the human nature of being afraid of things you don't understand?

People who take the time to think know it's silly to have irrational fears.

Just look at all the fake news they believe.

This leads to the conclusion that people who are scared to death but often say: 'I'm not afraid of anything!' are irrational people.

Do you agree?

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A Name (a #shortstory)

She lay on her back watching the stars 

and wondered where she had come from.

Once someone had given her a name 

but she had forgotten it long since.

She remembered she waited. But for what? 

In the mean time she enjoyed her dreams and her fantasies.

Vague memories disconcerted her but never for long.

Absent-mindedly she played with the small object 

she always kept within reach. It gave her solace.

Years came and went and it was increasingly difficult 

to get food but she was contented.

In her own small world she was everything.

When they found her bleached bones 

they wondered where she had come from 

and if she had ever been given a name.

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Are you getting paid to follow your passion?

What if painting was your passion? But you would have no time to pursue your passion because you have to work for money to make ends meet? Wouldn't it be great if you would receive enough money to not have to worry and spend all your time and energy on your passion? In other words: how do you feel about a Universal Basic Income (UBI)?

Now imagine every year a couple of million would be deposited in your bankaccount and you could travel to your hearts desire, buy a third house or fourth car without worrying about the money. You could excersise your favourite hobby! Let's say it's football and not having money problems would allow you to train 15 hours per week (click) and play a game every single week of the year against the best players in the world!

Wouldn't that be great? Funny thing is: the latter is considered normal. But instead of being called 'a Basic income' it's called 'salary and sponsor contracts'. 

We live in a society in which getting millions a year is called 'getting paid to work' when you're a top football player, famous musician or top level 'business man' or politician. 

When you ask for 12.000 a year so you can do as you please, it's called 'socialist' and is disregarded as being 'bad'. Without anyone being able to explain why it is bad to be able to do what you want.

I find that weird.

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Keep the fire burning (a poem)

To keep the fire burning

with the stains on our conscience

synchronized

with our will to survive 

Having thought of everything

but always in time

to bury our minds

behind a curtain of sand

in memory of those left behind

To keep the fire burning 

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Nice and innocent songs are not always nice and innocent

'Tutti Frutti' is a nice, innocent rock 'n roll song in which a man sings about all the different shapes and sizes of women he likes. Right? Not exactly. 'Fruity' in the fifties in America was slang for 'acting like a man who often sexually prefers other men. Like singer/songwriter Little Richard. 

He was in a studio to produce some other song and while waiting he played the song he had played in bars hundreds of times.

"The original lyrics, according to Little Richard, went as follows: "A wop bop a loo mop a good goddam, Tutti Frutti, good booty, if it don't fit, don't force it, you can grease it, make it easy."" (source)

The producer who heard Little Richard play Tutti Frutti hired a different songwriter to rewrite some of the lyrics and it - as well as Little Richard - became an enormous hit.

If Little Richard hadn't agreed to a rewrite of Tutti Frutti, those nice, white, American 'christians' would have burned the record. And Richard with it.

There are more songs out there the don't exactly mean what you probably think they mean:

Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen is a nice and innocent song that's often played at funerals because it seems to praise God almighty? Nah. It's about a struggle between lust and love and - according to Jeff Buckley, the singer who made Hallelujah famous - the lyrics are an ode to the orgasm. 'She tied me to the kitchen chair' anyone? Just some sexual play or about a woman taking power over a man?

Every Breath You Take by The Police is not a love song but describes the crazy mind of a stalker. Which could be an ex lover or the government.

R.E.M. 'The one I Love' is an ode to the one the singer loves? Nah. It deals with hypocrisy: just saying you love someone does not make it a fact.

What are other songs that you now know mean something else than you once thought they did?

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Reality (a poem)

In the darkness

our words are lost

While they drift away

on unspoken thoughts

of shared memories.

We know we once had

the same dream

which never became

more than that

Because we once decided

to turn it 

into reality

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