moon palace

nice words # 9

dandelion

on a fairy's wing

"But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the washstand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor. Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace. For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

happiness # 45

the great Jaguar Shark

and, together: Starálfur.


as if one.

happiness # 44

late-night parking lots, scattered around the world. sometimes with small puddles of rain, sometimes with scraps of torn paper belonging to no one. sometimes with just one car, sometimes with three cars. late-night parking lots.

walls

you occupy me so
reach behind my
secured walls;
every time and again
you beat me.

I can only stand desolate
and bare
before you.
This is how you see me.

you reach,
naturally,
and you
find

me.

Even when I try to
close eyes and think
these walls
are strong enough even
for you

And
they're not.

You reach;
you're here.
Close walls.

why not

a bit naive perhaps, but i like it nevertheless

"I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady."

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

and so this concludes for now

happiness # 43:
being me


sadness # 7:
being me


song of the day:
Radiohead - Reckoner


nice words # 8:
conundrum

nice cd cover # 9:

R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi

another one in dutch

leg mij te slapen
in de holte van uw arm
leg mij
laat mij de holte van uw arm zijn
te slapen