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Accident

again, just like yesterday
again, just like yesterday
conception of time ll come again

    heroing with nothing but absence
    of history or any other sense
    leaving & no thing more te go
    tomorrow s going te be unknown

again, just like yesterday
again, just like yesterday
conception of time ll come again

lp

Adapted letter

Dear
sweet
oh what does it matter
you know just as well what I mean
you are a stranger to me
and yet I know you through and through

t
  u
    r
      n
          yourself
                        back
                                  to
                                      me

I soil the guitar with a blood form mime finkers
I xan hardly blay

s
  i
    n
      k
        a
            l
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                            w
                                i
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                                        h
                                          m
                                            e
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                                                        e
                                                            h
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                                                                    t
                                                                        e
                                                                            t
                                                                                h
                                                                                    a
                                                                                        t

                                                             I

                                                                                                feel

















why don't you hit me in my face


                  I despise


your smiiillleeee
love me

do you believe me if I say that I am crying
I don't dare asking anymore
here am I
where are you?

the squandered drain of pent-up statements of love

overflows the chilly ice-entombed surface

in snow-covered fields filled with once flowering days of contentment
and drowns my final torrent of words








!





kiss
dream
bed
squall

calls


squalls

call                                                                                                                          s

                                                                                                                             in   anity

          d

ma   dess


                                                                                                                             k

   l                                                                                                                          s   unk


b asted


I don't mean it
I only mean what you think I should
sorry




I forgot myself




was left just with you




and that was too much for me




honey

will you ever think of me once in a while









?







jos hustings

A maze of getting on

te awake with sadness in your eye
disappointid, standing on your own
turning all gratuities aside
preferring te wander all alone

    anyway,
    sun s a rising
    sounds a turning into noise
    night s a dying
    one s feeling te have no choice
    no way of escaping
    te hide the morn of a new day
    no delaying
    no time te mourn or te stay

    love s a dying
    & a growing somewhere else
    someone s a sighing
    the other has but happiness te tell
    a poet a rising
    trying te line your way
    might be exciting
    finding it wont be in vain

lp

A New Model

what do you want
where do you care in an orderly setup of thoughts
does only feeling matter
put it all in congress of disputable remnants
conduct
as a way of behaving might as well suppose
we are doomed to act
and the program has finally restored
all the matters of interest
and the life of words as oldfashioned relics

behave yourself
and leave all excuses wrapped up in a plastic bag
to me your eyes could be filled with a chemical fluid
and age means dying and
I'm not young anymore
I am older

what does it mean
where does it hurt in mechanical aspects of view
do only senses matter
get it all in progress from regressive compulsion
emotion
as a means to expression has finally come
to the stage of no respect
and the answers are constantly involved
to analyze the prophecy
that man's life's a revolutionary exit

behave yourself
and leave all excuses wrapped up in a plastic bag
to me your eyes could be filled with a chemical acid
and age means dying and
I'm not young anymore
I am older

and what does it mean to you

cellar rats

there's rats converting your cellar
they're killing me with devouring teeth

killing wax

there's wax that drips from the ceiling
it's killing you with consuming heat

publicide

and there's a publicidal movement going on for ages

and what does it mean to you

jos hustings

A Nightmare Song

in order of appearance:
a. twilightflightrehearsal
b. subconscience-escaping-procedure
            it's behind a clockwork
                seconds scream a nightmare song

c. final flightphase
d. flightfailure through weakening
e. subconscience-capturing-procedure
f. from borderline to summarizing
g. twilight-dawn-fights
h. dawnflightrehearsal da capo al fine
            will you crumble me in?

jos hustings

Arkham house

what heroes are not concerned with
romantic adventure, dramatic incident
they got someting te tell you
it may be hard te explain
what desire to public faith

the basic trouble of any hero
is that he can lose his pride
for he got something te tell you
or at least he acts as if he has
in the reach for fatal success-

seeing ceasars empire a growing
napoleon followed behind
he got something te tell you
tho he didnt always succeed
there s more than what misery

quasimodo climbing his tower
frightening paris in the night
he got something te tell you
tho his love is all he has
maybe it isnt so aimless

now groucho is always goodlooking
he looks for ladies everywhere
he got something te tell them
wants te show all he can
laughable to the final end-

now nothing is left except relics
of the dead & hosts of the dying
it has something te tell you
heroically reviving the past
echoing all but the counterpart-

lp

Can I take you home

woman can I take you home
we talked so intensely through the night
you were so sad lately, and by talking to me at last you knew
life was worth living for so please let me take you home
I'm so afraid to go back to my room all alone

jos hustings

Celestial city sounds

sound shot through by a rare sad light
forced te return to a point within itself
    sad city sorrow
    desolatid row

withstanding valueless violence
never-ending search for source
(of) understanding any judging force
still demanding te share a chance
    sad city sorrow
    desolatid row

indestructible a belief te get released
from society & its ignorance
te find ye soul in its decadence
te think you or it got something te reveal
    sad city sorrow
    desolatid row

beginning te write regardless reply
unconscious of praevious doubt
no coherence te wonder about
never knew what had made ye decide
    sad city sorrow
    desolatid row

pale face, no time te conceal
no thing te refuse or te prove
sharpened distrust a worrying you
contrition about; fatal conceit
    sad city sorrow
    desolatid row

ye ran from north to south wall in speed
ye happened te think ye had the need
never wondered aboutatoedtown yed seen
senescent city sounds didnt mean
what yed expectid them te be, i guess
as if ye knew what facts ye had te regret
    sad city sorrow, someone s alone
    desolatid row, on his/its own

lp

Clear of bitterness

Like to see your breasts jump up and down while running in wood
see the nipples leave traces in your T-shirt
like to wear it day and night to smell the sweat you drove into it
and the photograph next to my bed of your naked body's still waiting for my masturbation
but I won't cry
I can handle my frustrations
I can handle my frustrations well enough
I can handle my frustrations well enough to keep my mind clear
I can handle my frustrations well enough to keep my mind clear of bitterness
clear of bitterness
clear of bitterness - by repeating I can change
clear of bitterness - my Emotions to Ratio
clear of bitterness - it's a self-help therapy
clear of bitterness - and I wonder if anybody noticed
bitterness

jos hustings

Countershade

I
Right at this moment I remember myself very clearly
    mere countershade exchanged with sanity
but it makes no difference really
there's not a thing left to lean upon
or to return to
I sometimes have to scream at myself that I am not alone
but who did I meet in more than sight or words or touch
it is always I that I seem to feel around me
but inside me is all I have gathered or lost

so at this time concerning myself as far as doubt goes
mere depth or altitude but meaningless hollow
it makes no difference really
I have to reassure myself that I am not exposing
but what did I say to more than critics and laughter
it is always I that I seem to encounter
and outside me is all I have written or forgotten

II
to try and get hold of another prospect
what can paranoia be mistaken for?

jos hustings

Deception

but half the time the other half
wasnt te be understood
no thing te do, te figure out instead
an invisibility of yoy

praesumeabli critical analysis
must precede in part by comparison
willingli te hide the subject
guess, te force one te carry on

what cld be said of you
without holding any deceit
in mistaken points of view
in praejudice which want te lead
one from you

lp

Direction nowhere

She who never changes
should be given a chance
I am never asking, prepared to die
summertimes are greedily spent
autumns though are scarcely used

years needed to realize
what I'd missed imploded to love
she met a fuse that burning
could hardly wait to start a fire
killing myself in deadly waiting
using my selfcontrol 'till later
somehow the urge had grown
to look for a better way

she who never changes
should be given a second chance
questions later so often rose
summertimes are hardly cheap
autums though are sadly rare

lost in a dead-end ceiling
of what I'd built in order to succeed
she was there tearing at my eyes
I settled down direction nowhere
dying 'till later I could have sworn I was living
she got my brains to work on her subject
times had arrived to shake my love awake
and to look for a better way

jos hustings

Ever so incomplete

A look through the sun to bathe in its warmth
anything to comprehend the strength of it all
ever so incomplete

a part of the world maybe unknown
everything convenient to those who are blind
it's ever so incomplete

almost a prince of imagined reigns
somewhere a slight idea of power
hallucinations far too real
conquer a land of soberness

life to live and die
live to die for life
die to love for life

feet on the ground dreaming away
every time illusions fade following truth
it's ever so incomplete

jos hustings

Flux

I cannot see what's coming
Do I stand to lose or gain?
Patterns are rearranging
Refraining from each known refrain

Balances are shifting
and the weight's never the same
How to motivate a life
Which road, what better claim?
Reassigning values
opens up alternate routes
choice and truth and randomness
hurl themselves about

I cannot see what's coming
Do I drift or do I guide
Am I a poor designer
If I fail to draw my lines

I am in a center
As is everyone around
Overlapping circles
How people throw themselves about!
Colliding, breaking, entering,
territorial wars
Embracing and accepting
Making room and joining force

I guess I would see what was coming
if I sealed my circle off
But I am alive,
constructing borders and demolishing them, again
I am alive,
constructing borders and demolishing them,constructing borders and demolishing them,
at will

Mathilde Roza

Grandiose Pantomime

unknown deviations te be explored, in what direction;
with one consent, te look for shape of deflection-

    grandiose pantomime,
    the village followed behind;
    entertaining hillbilly:
    mobilized te paralize;
    focusing attention sky-high,
    era of quasiness in spotlight
    plus surrealistic an episode
    (dictionaries te explode);
    receptive exponents
    avoiding any concern-

flash of lighning blues, lady a singing, te forget the pain
of a homeless wanderer, a lover, the idea that no thing ll change-
unknown deviations te be explored; aimless idea
against patriotic romanticism, te reach for liberty-

    micky, satisfied a mouse,
    medicine near by;
    rock & roll sound,
    forced up any time;
    competition & survival
    loveless ballads in return,
    sentimental hangover,
    violent image te occur;

    serious a moment,
    (antidote) a coincidence;
    wistful eleanor
    going astray with no friends;
    solitude one day in one life,
    te be saved from despair
    besides, being at odds: pride of decadence
    vanity te defend;
    in a previous argument
    (gesture) with what other friends-

persephone; established revelation; closed labyrinths;
providing symbolisms; ovide, what infernal consequence-
unknown deviations te be explored, invincible opinions,
undermining the purpose: the killing of what vengeance-

    a graceful aeroplane,
    blowing your mind away;
    dodo creatid the crown;
    inviolable lenely crowd;
    disobeying icarus, feeling the pain
    (of) death-like fire; te dislocate;
    fighting typical issues,
    warehouzis misused, hopelessli failed;
    attitudes & doctrines,
    one has te know what difference-

progress, it did work; wastid times splendidli described;
desired questionless; looked for interest (extemporized);
unknown deviations te be explored; a portrait
of period of prosperiti, beyond spheres of intellect-

    whispered wisdom
    (orthodox enough);
    issuing sinn of lucifer,
    lyrical climax;
    velvet venture underground,
    lost in whatever crowd;
    beautiful manners, detailed;
    explaining not te be afraid;

    bowery theaters,
    too dark te make one see;
    affectionate appearance,
    heroical oddity;
    being victorious
    audience playing goliath.
    travelling from image
    to image (restless); te collect
    anything that is usefull
    if it cld increase what fame-

weeping eyes, external part of your pain, te set your mind at ease;
fragments of distrust, te be condemned or neglectid at least-

lp

Immediate Knowledge

immediate knowledge in here
hearsay overthere, near you
wonder how te get through
misunderstanding s te fear

lp

Internal Capsule

a. Threat

    Sometimes
when you let your thoughts
find their own direction you feel the fear
where they might lead you to
    and meantimes
you desintegrate
while your system crumbles you are the fear you are
    everything inside
    and the brakes,
        almost desperately,
    take care of you
slowly rearrange you to a more insecure system
with a warning from now
it may touch you
and stay out of sight
it's an immobile creature
        or an active ... passion

b. Dead Pride

Cold
breathless cold
life is strong as fear

change
a subtle time
death moves on            but
I am not forsaking who I am
slowly they come, offering a chance
fighting for humanity and rights
            killer hide your words
            mine won't loose their grip on yours
            with a scenery behind me of masquerades I
feel my pride
what's it worth
I have no choice
but to feel it inside

c. Research

my selfdefence
though carefully built
needs restoring
so it seems odd
to break it down
stone by stone
to uncover doors I never went through
still carrying keys (to unlock them)
and stones and corruption
to keep the situation under control
by building new walls
to search inch by inch
inside the maybe dusty
               maybe virginal rooms
that lay beyond
the tension sometimes accumulates
and I'm bound to undergo the storm that ravages behind each door
to throw them down?
drag me to the endless cosmos inside
so far I managed
and don't know
for how long

d. Near Transparency

Candlefire warms this page
the icicle attaches to it
a clarification
or capitulation - the implosion of the skeleton -
                       to the immobile creature
ready to strike - what am i afraid of?

i see myself and name what I know
everything else passes by
still
but fingers point and are about to shell the skeleton
the tension grows when i listen

e. Alteration

how long do impasses take
the other one is on the alert
just before i'll fall asleep
it will overmaster me
and when i wake up again
i can't re-tell
'cos my hand stops writing the moment my body relaxes
i parasite
can't handle my parasites
abusing all energy
that could have released me
the wrestling takes longer
it won't be easy on me
neither when my hand writes the last sentence
and later on drops the pencil

    tonight i shall know him
    i feel him coming
    i must go now

f. Cosmotics

the capsule
shrinks and expands
painwaves
twinges of alarm
no wall
or even curtain
a pellicle
too tenuous
    fragile reeling
i am more frightened even
a pressure
and movements
thoughts not mine
the parasite consumes
the resistance still weak
    i am a genius
    with flying thoughts
    flooded by mankind
    no tight grip
    and exalted beyond it


    i am superior
completely dependant they take me away
from where i thought i left
illusions
ne certitude
but death rousing me
    dance of death, flood of thoughts
    i am the emperor
    everything is in my hands, but paralyzed
casually he knocks on the door of my room
i have no more stones
and if i open the door, the whirlpool, too
the last door will give way
    i am God
    caught in my omnipotence
the brakes don't work now
    i am a child
    afraid in darkness, noone to hear me

g. Skeleton Implosion

why did i scream into emptiness
it does hurt, though
because it's so different
it feels so crowded
    will
        presently
            the implosion
                come

i am definitely on my own i believe
he has kicked down everything but i'm still here
in darkness
i didn't need that don't need it now
i want to look
look at myself
where's the creature?

the storm is over
ruins i guess
but clean
i am not grown yet
but i'm stronger
strange pain
but great though
where do i begin

h. The Warning

the chance is here
questions remain
we'll complete them in a while

time is mine
behind every door of the new labyrinth the creature grows
immobile
and inevitable
no walls to avert the cold
i myself must be warm
it stays out of sight
but may touch me
            the warning remains
            at danger
                slowly unraveled system             but efficiently
        an active ... passion

cautiously i peer over the edge
at last i shall know him
but as it's lying there
it looks closely like me

jos hustings

It makes me laugh

Everything that matters isn't quite abundant
looking like the centre of a crowded city

whereever a signpost indicates all directions

staring at the castle of a middle-aged village
smashing wall to wall need a bit of council

every single mute man cries a yell of fear
if it ever happens guide me I am blind

jos hustings

Jennys face

at this point negotiations become confusing
seems te be mislaid by romantic vision:
a thousand differencis, te be realised
one poetic farewell te get hold of jennys eye

depending on increasing chaos no doubt
working tho waiting every hour
revise a mind indefatigabli
te reach for jenny explicitli

te attack tyrannies of a not-knowing
anxious te know where te be a going
in changing eyesight & point of view
te look for jenny & all she will do

balancing unstable visions, te escape
from modern mind & its shape
te return to distinguished levels
for its jennys face that seems te matter

the feeling which arrests the mind
in the presence of its speculative side
te regain control, a finalli
te laugh with jenny lovingli

lp

L'apotheose

exiles letter; notes; inventing a poem
traceable lines in whatever comes near
search for reason, or else te be doomned
visions of deceivable doubt te be feared
    what is done cannot be undone
    no way te defend
    or te escape
    te be condemned
    no point in faith
    what is done cannot be undone
    or for all that shldnt i wait
    might be wondering what has been done
    or for all that shld i have te be afraid

detained hero; solitude; circles te go
stream of diffusing energy, no strength
suicide; not playing but being a hero
no act; te be loved at length
    what is done cannot be undone
    no concession
    no thing te confess
    no detached passion
    te be expressed
    what is done cannot be undone
    nevertheless shldnt i try te stay
    might be wondering what has been done
    & never knew what else i shld have to say

lp

Last Triangle

I
Yes
    the mess completed
systematically
almost planned, you took everything from me
        until - enough to turn to -
you had no further need of me

to me
it's as if you took away my best friend

the warnings
even by telephone she knew
though taking my part
even in my words I heard them
not for once realising they were meant for me

a one by one persuasion of your injuries and my unsparing weapons
        but all the more pathetic
        for your blindness, denying
        until - enough to be guarded by -
you had no further need of me

to me
it's as if you took away my best friend

the burden of being secretive
once open, blaming that on being closed
do we see more than we're willing to

spontaneously
the irony of fate
to be thrown out the way I was held within
        your body a symbol
        or metaphor now visualised
        until - how much shown of yourself -
you had no further need of me

to me
it's as if you took away my best friend

yes
the mess completed
almost knowingly you took them from me
        until - provided with mere impressions
        implanted in their brains
they'll have no further need of me

to me
it's as if you took away my best part

II
I've gone through all of this before
yet fascinating how every image completes the picture
or how everything has remained exactly as it was then
maybe even every movement
or way of looking
except of course the change throughout memory

with you behind me
and no feeling of having left
nor the atmosphere around
in your room
or on route
the walk

and now pain melts itself inside
I am not older now it seems
is it still no common gesture to hold your hand
am I now the fool I remember as myself

there must be a way to express
a way I can't recall
to describe the roots
or the leafs I can't prevent from falling

but knowing you would have told me
should reassure me

III
            so in the end
    everything seems to fit in after all
        but what is left
    is not as brave as hope is

on physical exception our intimate hide-out's attraction has failed
more than to wonder I gather my feelings insatiably
and Narcissus would leave you and mirror himself for days from another point of reflection
and bathe himself in remembering the beauty-mirage of your naked daring
        but what did you fortify
        false masculine remnants
        or a pilgrims' resort
maybe the hermit's border near the emperor's realm

on occasional hight-tides when answers included a mutal aim
all the more menaced I loved you ambiguously
and the Outsider felt himself covered and ready to rape your mind thoroughly
and pain afterwards in remembering the stripped masquerade of your façade's breakdown
        but what did you long for
        false female confirmation
        or a life-time insurance
maybe the empress's command over misfit reality

            so eventually
    everyone seems to fit in
        after all

he lies in between reality's dilemma
though asleep he chooses a part of his life-work
but we won't say it was by accident would we
so he 'wakes and acts on impulse
while everyone refuses to accept it as final

so in the end life is my mirror
where she looks at myself
her eyes hold no promise

I don't expect her to be better
I just hope it will be different
jos hustings

Mooneater

a. Introspection

to know yourself ill
in fact it begins with that
a deep inevitable secret  for noone to know
                                     for noone to understand
                                     for noone to explain
the secret's no problem, though
a basic wrongness merely
the essential mistake of how your qualities are composed
to mention it makes you strong, denying you're really sick
you're so much confused and you don't dare to share it with anyone
because you're afraid they might take it worse and lock you up

mooneater

dreams in daylight
sudden visions
surroundings changing
into new patterns
strange
and known
at the same time

mooneater
you talk with him
he speaks to you
children's fantasy at day

once he taught you to fly
you know you can't fly, too often you forget
and that.....must be sickness
to know
and forget
at the same time
to know one can't fly
and feel
it can't be the same for you, in fact it begins with that

jos hustings (based on Hannes Meinkema's novel: Maaneter

Mourning glory

You're leaving, good morning baby, less than a cry
no need to be mourning sorry I'm in a hurry
you're strange in a nightgown maybe I'm not alone
only your eyes can see me naked or dressed
no matter how you like me my heart's been closed
it's time to go before you know I'm bound to cry

you're better this morning baby and better off
I'm not supposed to say goodbye to my love
and stranger than ever you're completely dressed
only your eyes are taking off not you yourself
lend me your thoughts to sleep with I'm so alone
it's time to leave to go to say goodbye to cry

jos hustings

Narcissus Re-Scutinized

i can't see but tricks in their eyes
     no statement
     no beauty even
sometimes rivals in challenge
do i have to choose

                    yet
                    somewhere inthere
                    has to lie a future
                    not in learning by comparing
                    she keeps telling me

but still
no clairvoyance
so why
do i have to choose

                    mantralike thoughts
                         repulsion
                              rejection
                         reluctant
                    repeating their replay

it didn't take me any further
than mirrorcracks

                    so
                    however, resisting
                    i should reintegrate, no reinforcement
                    and renounce myself to re-establish she keeps telling me

guess i'll turn my mystic approaches
into equal-chance combat
jos hustings

Never take me home

If you are the last one
you're a fool to touch me
you could make it, so much better
but your desperation crawls around
keep an eye on what you feel
if it's me you can't see
you can take me if you want to bring yourself to life but
never take me home

jos hustings

No less

I feel my way around
I stumble through the darkness
A candle and a neonlight
Illuminate my path, my rise, my fall

Doors of perception
failed to open in that instant
The specks of doubt that jammed the lock
Still float around the heart, the mind, the soul.

Fat men are waging battle over claims of wisdom
And truth gets up
and walks right out
and packs her bags
and boards the next train home.

Hot on the trail
The poet sits down in his parlor
The writer Microsofts the words
The singer sighs her songs
The painter drips

I know a school of thought
And you know quite another
We meet half-way, politely pause
We shake our hands but afterwards our heads

Appropriation is completely inappropriate
Renaming things is naming things
The blessed rage for order
orders us

I feel my way around
I stumble through the darkness
A candle and a neonlight
Illuminate my path, my rise, my fall

Mathilde Roza

Not allowed te practice

not allowed te practice
mental pain s to be feared
te look nice in uniform
as if it shld be sincere
mental pain s to be feared

saint-like mystery
(in) a sad silence; café
regular customers
crowded together every day
(in) a sad silence; café

    didnt happen te pass too often
    didnt want any time te waste
    looked at/for too many facis
    a thousand differencis te be traced

a dying evening
everything has taken its place
no need te wonder
no thing te feel but disgrace
everything has taken its place

willingly te worry
about artificial serious eyes
might feel insecure
what other distrust is te rise
about artificial serious eyes

    didnt happen te pass too often
    didnt want any time te waste
    looked at/for too many facis
    a thousand differencis te be traced

not allowed te practice
mental pain s to be feared
te look nice in uniform
as if it shld be sincere

lp

One Way Screen

I drew the curtains almost too late
I nearly got caught in the act
and the part was an alphabet
the words failed to fit in

I alost got killed
but just in time I turned off the lights

jos hustings

Overcrowd

It's so crowded inhere
can't even play my mind
        out of here
    if concentration
    not more than regressive compulsion
plays the indignation role

I saw so much within
a one way chaos

what am i doing here
where am i going now
is there no way out

there's no way back
seems no way through

I'm living in a madman's jail

i can only see    if i get a chance    to gain

jos hustings

Paradoxical Autumn

Birth

Be my son
    hand-made child
you 'woke your mother yesterday
it made her laugh so loud
    silence held its breath

follow me
    heaven's child
emerging from my passionate sea
creating such a beauty
    must have cost you pain

light the rain
hand over my coat
to cover all I have left
lean on me
wade the lake
leave the night
into another day

fishermen
    sacrifice
burn your nets in dignity
keep your solemn vows
    and find us a home

bring your love
    still asleep
dawn for every man in me
soon my warmth will vover you
    I'll see to your health

summer dies
premature from birth
far too old to live anew
next to me
you shall sleep
inside you
I shall grow

The day I'll die

Behind a mask of ritual senselessness
is it life to grow up enclosed in fear
the day I'll die I know you'll cry
The day I'm blind you'll leap behind

seven days will I be older then
seven rains drowning a face of tears
the day I'm deaf I know they'll laugh
the day I'm dead you won't forget

fight men heaven has a welcome to martyrs
die men every link of life is broken
it is something to live for
to escape from a never found love
it is something to die for
to waste a never-had dream

satin skins soften a brutal thirst
desert dust whenever believes explode
the day I'll die I know I'll cry
the day I give time to live


jos hustings

Pre-vacuum

So the daylight's come to pass
in Hampstead Heath grow pentagons
her little sister pulls a chord
    and hears again
take my hand

so the daylight's come to pass
from Tower Hill fall pentagrams
through crossroad words and market place
    to you
take my hand

through a tunnel metal speed
can I lie there
for just a hotdog's meal and sun
de-cadence I can't play

so the daylight's come to pass
connections cut from Pantheons
on smog to howl a hungerpain
    for you
take my hand

jos hustings

Purpose, what title

pockets a bulging with manuscripts
a little suitcase in my hand
soon te be lost in a crowd
anonymous hardli any personal accent

on tour with a bundle of papers
uneasili a holding under my arm
a crowd an air of conspiracy
forcing one te get alarmed

nevertheless no tide a turning
didnt seem to be serious enough
still, undoubtidli a leading one
into excess into blind spots

    a writing my time
    crises following behind

guess it wld weigh heavily upon me
besides, no use in taking to flight
dont know how te stand it
dont know how hard ive tried

pockets a bulging with manuscripts
a little suitcase in my hand
dont know how te stand it
dont know what shld have been said

lp

Remove the candle

Your face hides a smiling shade
your warmth reflects another smell
from your body I can hardly leave
and your leafs wont't fall now
I'm not allowed to shake your head
so light your eyes remove the candle

look up, around us the darkness creeps
your arms create another shape
from your pillow you can hardly leave
and my tears won't fall now
please watch your hand it breaks my nerves
remove your eyes and light the candle

jos hustings

Ritmus slow

Ritmus
beats of crawling hearts
streaming blood
in crackled veins
crumbled up emotions
with slow down visions
he pointed only with his eye

the shook me up made me scream
and put me in a dream
foggy voices
got the cowered cow by his horns
heavy heels hit me on my place
paths petitions places me

(charlot)

slow
slaughter
burning breath from her chest
she shivered locked me up inside her room
running rowing out
through shattering shades
and forced to face the straight-ahead way
so turning back
inside of which is but hollow ground
female illusions
far too few far too much safety
so left with cries
I'm bound to leave
and keep it in my heart

(jos)

note: lyrics were written by charlot and jos separately, at the same time

charlot rutten / jos hustings

Second Fantasy's Movement

All my faces cried to make her sing out another tune
and now a conversation takes a footstep along the sand
it's easy take a sip of an awful drink
a CD joke takes a little time

as every journey makes you wander I shall be on my way
always a changing entertainment I'll be beyond your sight
uneasy endlessy on a movie scene
from this reality I've escaped once more

Emily played I looked for her where ever she's to be found
bottles of dynamite emerged from Liberty's open mouth
there always seems to be a second empty bed
and every time I sleep I shouldn't be alone

jos hustings

Short Breath balancing Somewhere

the survey is gone
it ends with disturbance
there's no beginning
     no prospect
     just hope
to be with you, once, forever
dead or alive, it doesn't matter

catching up
with time
leaves me short of breath

what comes behind now
will end with disturbance
there'll be no ending
     no inside
     just out
being alone
or in love
it doesn't matter

catching up
with you
leaves me short of breath

I promised you once
to end up inside you
does it make sense now
     you're out there
     not inhere
does to be with me
cost you more
than you can matter

catching up
with life
leaves me short of breath

(somewhere between the rights I caught a glance of youre eyes
inside their looks I needed to carry on and maybe tried out my needs
amazingly restless and somewhere so calmly
my mind's on a turn to understand the wrongs
if I love you I shouldn't be sad at all

somewhere inside the worst I took a part of your love
I knew the pain it would cause too well still beyond that I couldn't care
incredibly happy and somewhere so sadly
my brains had been chained to a taste of the best
if you love me I shouldn't be alone at all

somehow we were sincere and gave the best we could feel
and I could take away your doubts and make you feel safe with me
unable to comfort you and somewhere so preciously
my life's been rearranged with desires to lie
but I love you you shouldn't be upset at all
)

jos hustings

Silent Revolutions

part 1

your eyes are screams
of silent riddles
locked up behind windstill screens
I can only listen to them

part 2

between then and now your eyes have grown from silence
they broke through sadness into future
and there's a penetrating mist inside this penetrated house
     where tears and laughter hardly synchronize
     with love, distrust and emptiness is too filled a word to be empty
and I know
     that my emptiness
          means everything
               that matters most
                    of unvoiced
                         affection

part 3

what are the questions
where are the answers
oh I wish you wouldn't say you were writing my symphony
and I wished you wouldn't say you were writing my novels
I wish you wouldn't say that you'ld like to dance with me
and I wished you hadn't said you'ld want to live with me
     and the rest of us are answering your phone
     and the rest of us are answering your phone with unquestionable answers

I don't want to sleep with you
I'd like you to say that you'ld like to wake with me
and I wished you wouldn't say you like my hair, my eyes, my hands
I wished you wouldn't feel I could expect you would express all that through action
     and the rest of us are answering your phone
     and the rest of us are answering your phone with unquestionable answers

jos hustings

Slow Gun

prologue
it doesn't do us any good now does it

act 1
I can see him
in a moment he'll strike
goddammit!

interlude 1
the big dissolution or desillusion it used to be

act 2
she's looking at me
awaiting the chance
she has already lost

interlude 2
there's no freedom except for adapts

act 3
I can see myself down in basements
whirling on
for Christ's sake

she can see him
in a moment he'll break
big sucker

interlude 3
and freedom lies in the act to the power of will

act 4 - epilogue
and so today the curtains fell
among the crowd sat the empress
she ruined all acts under her eyes
he finally cried
he was no actor

jos hustings

Somewhere consequences

These are somewhere consequences
to avoid some subtle chances
inside heads and keeping discrete distance
knowing love and how it might hurt
        but watching phones as threatening attacks
    how does time conduct in timeless
    spaces and revolting phrases
    where am I to go
        Can you tell me when it dies

all permitting situations
no soft and penetrating attention
not to touch and hardly reaching
knowing darkness and how it flees for light
        but almost locked behind a windstill screen
    how does love behave in restless
    senses or reduced commitment
    how am I to know
        Can you tell me when it dies


jos hustings

Song

intermezzo
    waiting home
    waiting home
    who s waiting home

    coming home
    coming home
    wont be alone
    wont be alone
    wont be alone

lp

Spiral Motion Initiative

your eyes are screams
of silent accusations
locked up behind icecold screens
I can only withdraw from them

jos hustings

Stuck in the Revolution of a Spiral Motion

No it's not true no it's not real
if she thinks to be partners takes two to believe
the other states there are borders at which we may fight
fights for power. fights to defend
to attack and destroy

No it's not true no it's not real
I can hear words I hear words I hear methods and theories
they vomit the virus into the world
and infect it
with individuality as an epidemic
but I hear dogs barking
I hear dogs howling as the traffic mutes
and the sub-atomic loneliness screams into the night
with modern words
words of this age
for women and men that don't live anymore while imagining they're awake

No it's not true no it's not real
I am never alone
my magic thoughts can call you anytime I want to
and you're with me, inside me
but I don't have the power to make you disappear
so your face keeps on crawling through
your face keeps on crawling through
it keeps on crawling through my mind
the obsession of identity
with hunger for a new model
and stuck in the revolution of a spiral motion

No it's not true no it's not real
the lies
and the fire in your eyes as you tell your fairy tales
about the seasons
how seasons change
how seasons change me
every season changes you
and every season makes me grow
every season makes me grow older

there's a spiral motion in your head try to understand
    the spiral of violence
    the spiral of peace
    the spiral of empty culture
    and empty art
so in every heart homes a fascist
and how am I not involved

no it's not true no it's not real
I hear plants whisper
future's conspiracy
I hear hearts beating
for after Hitler's resurrection in consequence of killing structures
and strangling systems                                                        
I can no longer state my fears
and what else have I got but despair
I'll be a man no longer, I'll be no woman ever
maybe a baby crawling back
a penis withdrawing or a vulva closing

there's a spiral motion around you try to dance with it
    the spiral of disconnecting
    of being asleep
    and being man or woman

no it's not true no it's not real
I hear fighting
I hear cynics dying
I hear them singing there's no way back
all the Nietzsches and Foucaults

give me a hand so we can laugh together
to save you from drowning in children and household
you're so vulnerable

we could melt into a new generation
or dissolve into a new pattern of dance
or disintegrate into a new predestination

I can see no other destiny in making love

jos hustings

Symptoms of a dawning love

Resting on a pillow hiding shame about a long forgotten era that was never lost
changes left outside the love I felt for someone more than I had been aware of
there's been changes rather simplified by other dreams
realised how much a smile frequently could complicate someone's love

after all I slept too long I am not ready to arrive
calling when her name was lost a silent resurrection grew
she is too vage

meanwhile dying I had no reason to survive within two-sided sympathy
she had never wanted to show her feelings hidden deeply in het twilight mind
leaving her defeated she was there beyond my reach
realised how much a smile frequently could complicate someone's love

after all a friday spring a sunday autumn never beats
felt my hesitation grow a symptom of a dawning love
she is too far

jos hustings

The Cyclic Entanglement

The trap is where the mind is
a dramatic scene of social masterpieces
where did you hide your choices
if nothing works out

The act is played where you withdraw
a fanatic study of identity crises
when did you leave your questions
if nothing works out

The pain roots where the heart beats
relational aspects of personal development
why did you support your feelings
if nothing works out

Truth is where the mask drops
dynamic movements through static impasses
who do you try to withhold
if nothing works out

jos hustings

Transference

what focal situation is te be described
momentary vision, perhaps too intimate
anyway, artificial reconstructions
in stead of experienced points of view
or in a way clinical definitions
in spite of chaos, te get through

situation of trying te freeze imagiz
which seem te occure rareli, obviousli
(re)sourciz te turn from speculative
to sensuous moment, no other way te go
unless one wants te lead the creative
by knowledge everyone already knows

nevertheless te try te come to terms
with art before willing te practice
te act, in this, in a strange way
rather forced than by faith
forced te surpass, just te get away
curiousli conscious what attention te pay

te be realistic in a special sense
in making some words to a sentence
a dealing with details te remain
in touch with suggestive backgrounds
recreating lines which want te say
too much, guess te stay around

born te free oneself from influenciz
te make an apriori approach, senseless
outlines te get filled with phrasiz
& transfigured with associations
te pass through a renascence
te understand what focal situation

lp

Unchangeable change

never turning around
burning everything down
thinking ye got nothing te hide
never changing this point of view

being homeward bound
all will be unchanged found
thinking youve been running before time
but still ye wld have your past te hide

lp

Wounded bird

The way you held my hand
As if it were a little wounded bird
That you would care for
Until it could fly away
The tenderness I felt was so selfless and involved
yet somehow tragic

Who are you?
You do not seem to have any faith
Don't you believe you can have things your way
When you try

There's giving, there's offering, there's helping
And then yielding, submitting, surrendering.
How about needing, asking, receiving
How about caring for yourself?

Cause when you held my hand as if it were a little wounded bird
You gave me so much
That you couldn't face the loss and flew away
No you couldn't face the loss and flew away

Mathilde Roza

(Yesterday te wait)

daybreak, guess i gotta open my eyes
my ears have te stand the pain
of every cloudburst in every sky
but i dont want te get awake

    might not think to straight
    but who does
    & besides, wld it be more easy te understand
    get your yesterday te wait
    irrational points of view
    ll make ye understand the final end

encouraging friends are on the do
trying te associate every act
with ideas they will have of you
wont need any time te reflect

offensing concurrence in every state youre in
dont wonder what good itll do
no use in trying te understand
besides noone s really interestid in you

    might not think to straight
    but who does
    & besides, wld it be more easy te understand
    get your yesterday te wait
    irrational points of view
    ll make ye understand the final end

little lovers disturbing the scene
looking for a quiet place
pleasing one another within a dream
unable te escape

radiant strangers special surprise
disappearing in the night
undoubtidli made me realise
what reasons ll make one desire or cry

    might not think to straight
    but who does
    & besides, wld it be more easy te understand
    get your yesterday te wait
    irrational points of view
    ll make ye understand the final end

little dazed in the heart of town
i knew i had te pass my time
tho id te ease circumstancis by now
didnt know how te say goodbye

shouting heroes in restless streets
hardli listening to sounds echoing around
i wont i happen te have no need
no thing s allowed but your silent sound

    might not think to straight
    but who does
    & besides, wld it be more easy te understand
    get your yesterday te wait
    irrational points of view
    ll make ye understand the final end

anyhow, guess youre allowed te impress me
though you (nor i) got anything te prepare
no thing te explain obviousli
apart from you m'lady somehow

tired of carrying the poems i wantid te write
situations confused my mind
looking for a new design
wish ye knew how hard i tried

what account is te be believed
its more & more difficult te separate
doings & intentions from ideas i want te hold
guess i will find a day te wait

lp

Yesteryearing

statues that want you te remind
a world of some other time
walls youve never been in
times with some other rhymes

conquerors & heroes are te find
poet & painter stand behind
doubtfull im looking in
times with some other rhymes

    times have changed
    weve taken other heroes
    & conquerors too
    arent they standing
    straight & tall
    like all
    the others do

    but where are the ones
    who ought te be on there
    lost in your history
    leading characters (often) remain unseen
    but they dont need but are victory

statues that want you te remind
a world of some other time
walls youve never been in
times with some other rhymes

conquerors & heroes are te find
poet & painter stand behind
doubtfull im looking in
times with some other rhymes

lp

Your softnesss, withdrawn beyond the surface of touchable, comprehensible tension, naked to the reaching aura of my longing and peace together, and its energy, untowering the walls between, tresspassing the newly created space of mind finally entering the now fully unfolded regions of my inner understanding

you're so silent

jos hustings