the reunion took place at midnight while the giant steel snake towered over deserted american train station

ever since the pandemic started these proper marxists and former suffists keep making appearances into my life

Slow down
Pay attention
Do good work
Love your neighbour
Love your place
Stay in your place
Settle for less, enjoy it more

Wendell Berry

the night i slept in a hammock out in the wild and rugged north american forest i dreamt of hosting a tea tasting contest between the english monarchs queen elizabeth and queen victoria

i gave the waiter an extra big tip for not being so ridiculously obnoxious the whole time

and then my friend told me these trains actually run on diesel

the republican at the booth usually only gave away the little flags to small children, but since i was european he made an exception for me. at the end of the evening it started to show the first signs of unraveling.

“What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do… We can, to a certain extent, change the world; we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world. We repeat, there is nothing that we can do but love, and, dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.”
— Dorothy Day

i then realised i had forgotten about my fear of heights

the rapid and intense questioning i underwent at subway took me back to the time when the american border people kept yelling at me

Er was een trein
Waar ik in zat
Waarin ik rust vond
Rust van de mensen
Rust in mezelf
Rust door het land waar we langs
Er was een trein
Waar ik in zat

Eefje de Visser

“oh i know where that is. it’s where peter pan is from”

somehow i stumbled into conversation with the deputy of a local department of the communist party of the USA. he was in new york for national meetings because his fellow comrade wasn’t able to change his amazon shift around.

the thing is, there are a lot of people out there that can a bit of a jerk at times