When young, I took the world
inside, filling me
And every day, fed
by age-wise women
I was happy to grow, greater
than Alexander the Great
Baruch and Master Kong
I married and had children
Homely and ordinary years
of peace and fulfilled wishes
It just continued, the people
with whom I spoke, the places
I kept coming, the classes
I started to have, the world
I handed out and the soul-
snips of myself
that I began to leave everywhere
to get empty of life
that stands still when it doesn't flow
to young bodies
Novella "De honden jagen niet meer" ("The dogs no longer hunt", 1979, Albert Alberts)
Collection "WoofWoof"