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Alternate wish 2024-2025

21 Saturday Dec 2024

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Dada, fotografie, gedicht, philosophy, photography, poetry, poezie, society

Hey, you:

Is it true you read, this, and the next

words and written thoughts, wrought

by sleeplessness, insomnia and sorrow.

Since this rotten world is consumed by

maggots, some with guns, the others

driven by envy, none silenced by having

to sit behind a Triumph, a Remington,

(mine is an Erika from the GDR) but

shouting on X, like crazy birds.

Who has control over the red button,

that will stop nonsense and sense alike,

in one sudden instance.

Aye, the worst dreams came true

arriving both from the east and west,

their messages driving holes like tubes

drawn by bullets in grey matter:  cheese

it  has become, infected by the craziness

of bulls – they must be bulls – that

disguised themselves as double burgers with

mayonnaise.

Now my cramped fingers find the words

silence and peace and know these must

differ from sleep without dreams.

(Amsterdam, former NDSM shipyard)

Drager Meurtant, Dec 25, 2023 – Dec 12, 2024

Nothing // Niets

25 Friday Oct 2024

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Dada, fotografie, gedicht, graphics, kunst, philosophy, poetry, poezie

I don’t believe in anything anymore.

it wasn’t a fall / not a gradual disappearance / 

but a sudden realization.

there was not a thing / at checking the map “belief”

that’s how simple it can be:

no memory either / and the back-up / was also empty.

this won’t work, I concluded / and decided to go cycling

niets geloof ik meer.

het was geen val, geen / geleidelijke verdwijning /

maar een plotse vaststelling.

er bleek niets te zijn / bij het raadplegen /

van de map “geloof”.

zo simpel kan het zijn: / geen herinnering ook / 

en de back-up was / eveneens leeg.

dan maar niet, dacht ik / en besloot een eindje

te gaan fietsen.

Drager Meurtant, 9-9-24

(monoprint, two elements, size image 12×20 cm
(DM, Sept 9, 2024)

The Trek (Modern Times)

27 Thursday Jun 2024

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assemblage, Dada, gedicht, landscape, philosophy, poetry, poezie, sculpture, society, strain

Is there more pressure, a heavier load / a road more insidious?

The Trek (Modern Times) – I

Is the texture of existence ruder / and less predictable and / is nature no longer trustworthy / not even in ourselves?

The Trek (Modern Times) – II

Yes, with the objective to serve / ourselves most / we become more otherless.

The Trek (Modern Times) – III (detail)

Sculpture, assemblage of wooden laths, coated with A-1 cast and paint plus piece of soap in cloth coated with A1 cast; 59x45x33 cm.

(c) Drager Meurtant, June 2024

The truth as told by a non-believer

11 Saturday May 2024

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Dada, gedicht, philosophy, photography, poetry

Elements that accept a different position

Myth

Being mean is not new,

myths tell the audience.

The dagger in my pocket

may be blunt, but sharp is

my tongue, as long as it ain’t cut

out by the adversary

the adversary that is you, or

your neighbour, and all those that

hate the words that undermine,

that mine thoughts of ordinary

people, fed by those of eminent

leaders, who cherrish rotten

eggs for ideas.

photo and text Drager Meurtant, 2023-2024

Positions (unaware – the fall)

30 Saturday Mar 2024

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collage, Dada, gedicht, kunst, poem, poetry, poezie

Basic terms  / (explain) / the fall as junction / between earth and / above.

Swift and silent / grades / of an approach / unwanted but inevitable.

Once steps were / made from / one position / the other ones followed / without thinking / ahead.

Positions (unaware – the fall)

Posities

(onbewust – de val)

Voorwaarden aan de basis / (verklaren) / de val als een verbinding / tussen de aarde en / daarboven.

Snelle en stille / stappen in een / benadering, ongewenst / maar onafwendbaar.

Toen treden waren / genomen van één positie / volgden de andere zonder / vooruit te denken.

(collage of monoprint fragments, 2020, part of Ben Uri Gallery Sales Exhibition, March 15-29, 2024)

Terrace on the River Rhine / Terras aan de Rivier de Rijn)

29 Monday Jan 2024

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Dada, fotografie, gedicht, kunst, philosophy, photography, poetry, poezie

Today, the world looked safer / without sirens, no shooting till 14 hours / and the car moved smoothly

accross the border / separating two countries for long / only in war having been united by force.

One hour later, the friends did meet / first time in almost 4 months.

It took two hours to talk down / the big C that shaped lives / and for leaving the extra coat / worn for safety.

And then they took a dive where it was / forbidden / followed by coffee on / a terrace looking at the river Rhine.

(terras aan de rivier de Rijn)

Vandaag kwam de wereld veiliger over / zonder sirenes, geen schieten tot 14 uur / en de auto bewoog langzaam / langs de grens / die de twee landen lang had gescheiden / alleen verenigd in de oorlog / door macht.

Eén uur later, ontmoetten de vrienden / elkaar voor het eerst in bijna vier maanden. / Het nam twee uur om de grote C / omlaag te praten, die het leven beheerste / en om de extra jas – gedragen voor de veiligheid – achter te laten.

En toen doken ze in het water waar het verboden was / gevolgd door koffie op / een terras dat uitkeek op de rivier de Rijn.

Drager Meurtant, June 24, 2020 (during lift of first Covid19 lockdown, minor corrections Jan 29, 2024)

The Destiny of the Line / Het Lot van de Lijn

24 Wednesday Jan 2024

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Dada, gedicht, kunst, monotype, philosophy, poetry, poezie, primitive

The line was drawn by / two fingers of a cramped / hand of the writer who wanted / words catched in image, this time / but halfway the paper / had to experience the line let / loose of the tip of the pencil,

and / next

moved freely through space / – that served the scene – / to land in the end / in a dash, or dot / on the ceiling.

Content – where the ink was scraped, there came content (DM, 2021, monoprint)

De lijn werd getrokken door / twee vingers aan de krampachtige / hand van de schrijver die woorden, nu eens / in beeld wilde vatten / maar halfweg het papier / moest ervaren dat de lijn los liet / van de punt van het potlood,

en / vervolgens

vrijelijk bewoog in de ruimte / – die plaats bood voor de scene – / om uiteindelijk te landen / in een vlek, of punt / op het plafond.

(Text & image / terkst en beeld, Drager Meurtant, 2021-2024)

Opposing, but no real harm done

08 Tuesday Nov 2022

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animals, Dada, gedicht, horses, kunst, monoprint, opposition, philosophy, poetry, poezie, Tegenstelling

“The view of the other is confronting,

even dangerous, perhaps

threatening our lives”.

For horses

opposition may mean a bruise

or a bite

but no deep animosity

and mounting hard-feelings.

Misanthropy has no equine

equivalant.

Tegengesteld, zonder echt te kwetsen

“De kijk van de ander is confronterend,

zelfs gevaarlijk, misschien

voor ons levensbedreigend.”

Bij paarden,

betekent tegenstelling een beurse plek

of een beet

maar geen diepe vijandigheid

en groeiende animositeit.

Misanthropie kent geen

paarden equivalent.

(poetry and monoprint, DM, 2022, http://www.meurtant.exto.org))

Thinking about earlier times / Denkend aan vroegere tijden

19 Sunday Jun 2022

Posted by dragermeurtant in abstract, archeology, art, creation, Dada, death, graphics, Greece, History, mental health, philosophy, poem, poetry

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Dada, gedicht, grafiek, Greece, linocut, linosnede, philosophy, poetry, poezie

Clouds and sun, and earth:
where I rest, there is
crumbly clay that harbours
the memory of a face, of
a jar in Hellas,
of a teacher at school.

Lino-cut / linosnede, DM, 2021

Wolken en zon en aarde:
waar ik rust, daar koestert
kruimelige klei de herinnering
van een gezicht, van
een kruik in Hellas,
van een leraar op school.

Graphics edition one (DM, 25-05-2021), poem 03-04-2022

The Answer

25 Saturday Sep 2021

Posted by dragermeurtant in abstract, art, Dada, death, kunst, photography, poem, poetry, poezie, Uncategorized

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Dada, fotografie, gedicht, kunst, philosophy, photography, poetry, poezie, surrealism

This morning / or was it the other day?

a dead duck knocked on the door,

and did so several times. //

However,

the door did not give in,

but kicked back instead,

it did so with fierce strength. //

Unused to such movement,

this produced great tension,

a sudden ache, and as a result

the door vomited twice

(pain can do this) and decided

to resign from function.

The owner working in the backyard

was informed the same instant. //

All the while, still,

the dead duck had waited in vain

for a clear answer

at a question left

unspoken, but that was

part of the delivery. //

The owner, a clever person,

saw chances

by hiring the dead duck

for an entrance.

(c) Drager Meurtant, text and image, 25-09-2021

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