MY JOURNEY LEADS TO YOU

Everyone should remember

The days called warm and tender

Watching the clouds hovering in the sky

And the distant sounds die

Everyone should remember

The days called warm and tender

The iconoclast sings a song

Till all statues are gone

Are you so afraid that when you open up

it will swallow you whole?

Are you afraid that you’re an angel

without a goal?

Dreams crash

Till there’s nothing’s left

The Reaper arrives

The soul theft

Traubert dreams of a sky that’s blue

Open up

Tear it off

Peel it off

Till there’s only you

HEAR THE BELLS TOLL

So I return home from a journey not taken

The TV shows morons making a fool of themselves

All the kids now want is the glitter not the gloom

“So what’s so important about those books on the shelves”

Love is now packaged in doom

We should try to share the intensity

Of the ray that beams out of the purest heart

No one should surrender

To the everyday ludicrous travesties

Or the ray will ricochet

Off into the infinite nowhere

I tried to believe

I really tried

but it didn’t stick

Like a transplanted kidney

My logic rejected

And rejected it

I tried to walk proud

So now I walk proud

My head sticks up

My spine un-hunched

Like I’m the proudest one

of the bunch

Still I’m so tired of hitting empty space

So I embark again

on an endless journey not taken

Time is upon us

and really cannot be forsaken

Art With Lady Aiko, Martha Cooper, Hyland and me Amsterdam 2011

Laser 3.14 winnaar van de Grand Prix de Graffiti 2011!

Woensdag 29 juni blies uitgeverij Lebowski ter gelegenheid van de dertigste sterfdag van Dr. Rat de Grand Prix de Graffiti nieuw leven in. Dr. Rat won deze prijs ooit in 1978. Daarna werd hij nog één keer gehouden (winnaar N-Power) om daarop een winterslaap van meer dan drie decennia te houden.

In Talentfactory De Valk gingen meerdere graffiteurs met elkaar de strijd aan. Uiteindelijk moest een publieke beslissing de doorslag geven. En die viel uit in het voordeel van de vooraf als gedoodverfde winnaar getipte Laser 3.14 (die overigens de kunst bestond om zich de hele wedstrijd anoniem te houden).

Check de foto’s van de Dr. Rat Memorial Day, van Mathilde MuPe

BEYOND THE SAFETY OF TWILIGHT

Hope should not fade with every breath

We all occupy one Earth

And nothing less

There’s more than one tainted sky

There’s more than one high

There are so many fires to tame

There are so many pictures to frame

Let us summon rationally

And have the purest beauty

Bestowed upon us

Let’s fuse together with the one

Closest to us

Let’s form a single row and chant

Cause elevation

Is at hand

Give me a gauntlet to walk

And let me prove

that I can be valiant 

Give me a bow and arrow

to kill the demon’s radiance

Let me be Nimrod

And make me build a tower

Let me obliterate a star

And create

a stardust shower

MY DEAR MAGDALENA

I’m sorry I never said I loved you

I’m sorry I never laid my lips on you

I’m sorry that I kept you at bay

I’m sorry I pretended not

Not to see

The glowing behind your eyes

I really wanted to harvest

and nurture your glee

I was cuffed

A distortion in synergy

I always wanted to utter the naked truth

My dear Magdalena

I belong to you

Interview in the Dr Rat Book

 

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