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Poem

Jan Lauwereyns

SOPHIE FAKED REGRET AND LAUGHED

Better read the heaping of dust in what you see before you,
He who grubs is he who grabs and gains good value, 

Proclaim the past, it’s past and gone, it’s said its last goodbye, 

Pusillanimous, tendentious, garrulous, loquacious, vacuous, impure
Uncertain, underage, undeserving, unhandy, unseemly, unsure, 

Sophie, not keen on her bit-part, banally let fly 

Her razor-sharp tongue, white with rage and blue in the face,
Against her palate, lacking any grain of grace, 

Wondered rhetorically what the sleuth might learn

With every new victim, faked regret, and tore
The lungs of Miki out of her ribcage, and gored 

My heart, now busy with ceasing to beat, Burn 

In hell, both of you, and laughed, Silence is coming, too,
Try a sleight of flight, escape the void that beckons you.

SOPHIE VEINSDE SPIJT EN LACHTE

SOPHIE VEINSDE SPIJT EN LACHTE

Lees liever het hopen van stoffen in wat je voor je ziet,
Het is wie graait die grijpt en van het lot geniet, 

Bewees het verleden, weg, voorbij, geschreven, finaal, 

Lafhartig, leeghoofdig, lichtvaardig, loslippig, luchtledig, laattijdig,
Onmachtig, onmondig, onwaardig, onhandig, onzalig, onzijdig, 

Sophie, niet happig op haar bijrol, klakte banaal 

Met vlijmscherpe tongspier, wit van woede en blauw van rade,
Tegen haar gehemelte, vrij van een greintje genade, 

Verwonderde zich retorisch wat de speurder zoekt 

In ieder volgend slachtoffer, veinsde spijt, en rukte
Miki de longen uit haar ribbenkast, en plukte 

Mijn hart, bij dezen bezig te stoppen met kloppen, Vervloekt 

Zijn jullie beiden, en lachte en daagde, De stilte dreigt,
Probeer een vluchtbeweging, ontsnap aan de leegte die neigt.

Close

SOPHIE FAKED REGRET AND LAUGHED

Better read the heaping of dust in what you see before you,
He who grubs is he who grabs and gains good value, 

Proclaim the past, it’s past and gone, it’s said its last goodbye, 

Pusillanimous, tendentious, garrulous, loquacious, vacuous, impure
Uncertain, underage, undeserving, unhandy, unseemly, unsure, 

Sophie, not keen on her bit-part, banally let fly 

Her razor-sharp tongue, white with rage and blue in the face,
Against her palate, lacking any grain of grace, 

Wondered rhetorically what the sleuth might learn

With every new victim, faked regret, and tore
The lungs of Miki out of her ribcage, and gored 

My heart, now busy with ceasing to beat, Burn 

In hell, both of you, and laughed, Silence is coming, too,
Try a sleight of flight, escape the void that beckons you.

SOPHIE FAKED REGRET AND LAUGHED

Better read the heaping of dust in what you see before you,
He who grubs is he who grabs and gains good value, 

Proclaim the past, it’s past and gone, it’s said its last goodbye, 

Pusillanimous, tendentious, garrulous, loquacious, vacuous, impure
Uncertain, underage, undeserving, unhandy, unseemly, unsure, 

Sophie, not keen on her bit-part, banally let fly 

Her razor-sharp tongue, white with rage and blue in the face,
Against her palate, lacking any grain of grace, 

Wondered rhetorically what the sleuth might learn

With every new victim, faked regret, and tore
The lungs of Miki out of her ribcage, and gored 

My heart, now busy with ceasing to beat, Burn 

In hell, both of you, and laughed, Silence is coming, too,
Try a sleight of flight, escape the void that beckons you.

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Gemeente Rotterdam
Nederlands Letterenfonds
Stichting Van Beuningen Peterich-fonds
Prins Bernhard cultuurfonds
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Versopolis
J.E. Jurriaanse
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