stiletto crow - poetry show

essence

a house to hide in
four floors for dreaming
grounded and surrounded
by the ceiling
stuck to the walls
we
slumbering wriggling boarding a train
glitter in the primordial soup

nothing can stop
the power of a real dream
not even a chain-smoking midwife
and so, we were born
with or without karate
some of us, even
with kung-fu

mother’s muscular arms
are the direct result
of carrying children, plants in pots, lambs
suitcases and butter

papa
een kirrende dwerg
leerde ons jongleren
papa
zachtaardige reus
diens gespierde armen
direct afkomstig van het behang

wij woonden op de bodem van het paradijselijke zwembad
bloedrood geschilderd
bij nader inzien
waren er gradaties van kleuren
en kindness
aardbeien
gewikkeld in caramel
om te voorkomen dat ze in het duistere water oplosten

we received the heavenly
gift
of crème brûlée
which we perfected
with a blow torch

this was no expensive cook’s blowtorch
but a simple paint stripper
bought from GAMMA

British chefs invented
the crème brûlée
divinely inspired
British cooks
strong-armed and carrying the blood of nations in their candle-like veins

yet all food evolves
from wolves to waffles

the proof of the pudding was
the aquatic dance
krokodillen worstelen met zeemeerminnen

in een onzuivere plas
stijgt een envelop zonder venster (met lak verzegeld)
naar de oppervlakte

seeming to promise the bumps on the crocodile
yet when we emptied it on a warm rock
we saw a confetti
of tickets to dreams
and performances
by Kris Kremo
and when we tried to pick them up
a wind blew them in spirals
out of our grasping claws

Kremo, born in 1951
legendary juggler
son of Béla
who taught his boy to juggle by mail

for quite some time now
we have been fascinated by kindness
and would wish for it to become
a default quality among humankind
may mermaids take de facto control of kind-essence within differ-essence

crocodiles are not kind
but they are ‘kind’

we wish to perform a study in degrees of crocodility
or is that crocolessence?
at what point does the child recognise this creature
fellow and bellow

CROCODILE!! KROKODIL!!?
we await a crocodile with wheels

Bela Kremo had a long bumpy body and 60-80 teeth
Kris Kremo’s mother was not a mermaid
and she was, kind of