In accordance with nature
Naturally he was angry
when she left him, not
because of someone else but,
as she said after due consideration:
to choose
for the lesser grief.
Naturally he was deeply sad
about so many setbacks, it had been
damned difficult
with his women and up till now she had
been the best.
Naturally he was upset,
confused, one could even say bewildered,
that she, whom he had accounted for
and praised as the very best,
left him for nobody else.
He knew: she loved me
but found me unbearable -
and this knowledge was unbearable to me.
Also quite naturally after that,
drunk in a pub,
he spoke venomously to her, cursed
and - later he found this unforgivable -
hit her.
Just as naturally
he felt ashamed of himself,
shrivelled up,
disappeared.
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Hans Kok [1939-2003] - selfportrait |
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