Poem

Robert Anker

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Don\'t forget to comb your hair

Don't forget to comb your hair
Before we have to find you
Just check how you're going to look back
It makes a sweet noise which smelling
To find us that breaks time
Don't forget to walk up and down
The way only you break free from the world
For what you are not but we know so well
To broadcast to us what by fits and starts
Removes us from ourselves so that we
Filled to the brim with radio silence

Fooled we am I
Come here I
Love you anyway

© Translation: 2002, Ko Kooman

Vergeet niet je haar te kammen

Vergeet niet je haar te kammen
Voordat wij je vinden moeten
Kijk even hoe je om gaat kijken
Het maakt een zoet gerucht dat geurend
Om ons te vinden dat de tijd breekt
Vergeet niet heen en weer te lopen
Zoals alleen jij loskomt uit de wereld
Om wat jij niet bent maar wij zo kennen
Naar ons uit te zenden wat ons schoksgewijs
Verwijdert uit onszelf zodat wij tot de rand
Gevuld met radiostilte

Gefopt wij ben ik
Kom maar hier ik
Hou toch wel van je

© 1999, Robert Anker

Robert Anker

Robert Anker

(The Netherlands, 1946 - 2017)

Initially, Robert Anker wrote poems like those of Christ van Geel – small, concentrated verses full of symbolism. Over the years, however, he has developed into a ‘lifesize’ poet who makes use of social and topical themes. From minimal to maximal, from stillness to vitality, Anker’s poetic development reflects what took place in Dutch poetry in the 1980s – a considerable upheaval.

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ballad of my aunt calling to wish me
a happy birthday or vice versa

It\'s all lukewarm mush

Dad mum, where your son counts his days though not his drinks

ONE OF US VIII

Don\'t forget to comb your hair

I was late as usual

HOMESICK FOR THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME

HOMESICK FOR THE DARK

He always wants to play chess with us, but he misses the pieces

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Don\'t forget to comb your hair

Don't forget to comb your hair
Before we have to find you
Just check how you're going to look back
It makes a sweet noise which smelling
To find us that breaks time
Don't forget to walk up and down
The way only you break free from the world
For what you are not but we know so well
To broadcast to us what by fits and starts
Removes us from ourselves so that we
Filled to the brim with radio silence

Fooled we am I
Come here I
Love you anyway

© 2002, Ko Kooman

Don\'t forget to comb your hair

Don't forget to comb your hair
Before we have to find you
Just check how you're going to look back
It makes a sweet noise which smelling
To find us that breaks time
Don't forget to walk up and down
The way only you break free from the world
For what you are not but we know so well
To broadcast to us what by fits and starts
Removes us from ourselves so that we
Filled to the brim with radio silence

Fooled we am I
Come here I
Love you anyway

© 2002, Ko Kooman

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