- Poor starv'ling bard, how small thy gains!
How unproportion'd to thy pains! -

woensdag 15 april 2020

If #Trump were Captain of the Titanic

If Trump were Captain of the Titanic:

- there isn't any iceberg
- it's a fake iceberg
- there was an iceberg but it's in a totally different ocean
- the iceberg is in this ocean but it will melt very soon
- there is an iceberg but we didn't hit the iceberg
- we hit the iceberg but the damage will be repaired very shortly
- I knew from the beginning there was an iceberg, long before people called it an iceberg
- the iceberg is a Chinese iceberg
- we are taking on water but every passenger who wants a lifeboat can get a lifeboat, and they are beautiful lifeboats
- look, passengers need to ask nicely for the lifeboats if they want them
- we don't have any lifeboats, we're not lifeboat distributors
- passengers should have panned for icebergs and brought their own lifeboats
- I really don't think we need that many lifeboats
- we have lifeboats and they're supposed to be our lifeboats, not the passengers lifeboats
- the lifeboats were left on shore by the last captain of this ship
- nobody could have foreseen the iceberg
- I'm an expert on icebergs; nobody knows more about icebergs than me
- I've got lots of friends who deal with icebergs, some of the best, really good ice people who know ice
- summer will come and the iceberg will disappear, it will go away like magic

vrijdag 10 april 2020

spijkervrijdag

spijkervrijdag

zo'n stervende godenzoon met het trieste
gelaat van een verstoten hoerenjong
hij heeft het wel vaker meegemaakt

koud en bloedeloos het hoofd onder protest
verlaten denken ze nog er onderuit te komen
tot dood zijn stem verheft

eens gegeven blijft gegeven
we doen hier niet aan bijna dood

tevreden kijkt hij uit over de akker die hij
al zo lang bewerkt en negeert de opstandigen
met hun al stomptandige monden

fris en monter gaat dood
dan weer over de kruisweg
nieuwe vrienden maken voor het leven

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