A House to Hide In
a house to hide in
four floors for dreaming
grounded and surrounded
by the ceiling
stuck to the walls
we slumbering wriggling boarding a train glitter
in the primordial soup
nothing can stop
the power of a real dream
not even a chain-smoking midwife
and so, we were born,
with or without karate,
some of us, even,
with kung-fu
mother’s muscular arms
are the direct result
of carrying children,
plants in pots, lambs,
suitcases and butter
papa
een kirrende dwerg
leerde ons jongleren
papa
zachtaardige reus
diens gespierde armen
direct afkomstig van
het behang
wij woonden op de bodem van het paradijselijke zwembad
bloedrood geschilderd
bij nader inzien
waren er gradaties van kleur
en kindness, en aardbeien
gewikkeld in caramel
om te voorkomen dat ze
in het duistere water oplosten
we received the heavenly
gift
of crème brûlée
which we perfected
with a blow torch
this was no expensive cook’s blowtorch
but a simple paint stripper
bought from GAMMA
we thought that British chefs invented
the crème brûlée
divinely inspired
British cooks
strong-armed
and carrying the blood of nations
in their candle-like veins
yet all food evolves
from wolves to waffles
the proof of the pudding was
the aquatic dance
krokodillen en zeemeerminnen
aan het worstelen
in een onzuivere plas
steeg een envelop zonder venster
(met lak verzegeld)
naar het spiegelende oppervlak
seeming to promise the bumps on the crocodile
yet when we emptied it on a warm rock
we saw a confetti
of tickets to dreams
and performances
by Kris Kremo
when we moved to gather them up
a wind blew them in spirals
out of our grasping claws
Kremo, born in 1951
legendary juggler
son of Béla
who taught his boy to juggle by mail
for quite some time now
we have been fascinated by kindness
and would wish for it to become
a default quality among humankind
may mermaids take de facto control
of kind-essence
within differ-essence
crocodiles are not kind
but they are ‘kind’
we wish to perform a study in degrees of crocodility
or is that crocolessence?
at what point does the child recognise this creature fellow
and bellow:
CROCODILE!!
KROKODIL!! ?
we await a crocodile with wheels
Béla Kremo
had a long bumpy body and 60-80 teeth
Kris Kremo’s mother was not a mermaid
and she was, kind of
