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Goodbye
for Jannie - 2008

It’s Autumn.
Birds have migrated
to the beauty of south,
the inevitable happening,
you too migrating
to the most southern
part of your tongue,
unable to hold on
to the sky, escaping
the firm grip
of our hands,
hour-glass of flesh and blood.

I dial your number
for the last time:
‘Met Jan. Laat asseblief een boodskap*.’

‘It’s Autumn.
Goodbye.’



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