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Wearing a shiny blue costume,
summer shows. Overpowers concrete,
disables traffic, lunges at helpless citizens.
The shock of seed on the surface of canals.
Together our imaginations join forces.
The crowded streets begin to know us by name.
Growing like flowers in obedient light,
no longer mocking the future, we may survive.
We eat on the Leidseplein, wander through
the Red Light District, end up in a jazz bar,
where a woman offers to read our fortune.
Resting under cool sheets,
we play with our inventions.
On our way out a man in a black hat
pulls a beard over his face as we pass.
Holding up a key he examines our eyes,
disappears behind a door that will not close.
We draw apart, searching the empty corridor.
Over sparkling canals, listening to our music,
stopping cars, trams, running over each other,
watching clowns in the square performing,
we meet strangers on a path who block our way.
The air is like a glass to drink summer rain.
The air is like a tightrope, holding down our ends.
We doze in the sun, waking up as the leaves fall,
burying us in snowy colours, unlit flames.
We leave quickly to escape the mad rush.
On Prinsengracht, I follow you up a long flight of stairs.
Your mouth is a horror, your eyes twitch in the yellow air.
We are like children waiting to make use of our freedom,
working in the silences, glimpsing potential,
holding hands, as we walk away, smiling for the cameras.
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