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"What's for dinner, Mom?"
"Pear rice." "No ... honestly"
"You will see when it's ready,
but having eaten a large bag
of potato chips, you probably
won't be hungry anymore. Well,
It's gonna be seafood spaghetti.
You have nothing better to do
than watching cartoons?"
"Not all cartoons are silly.
You know what I just saw?
A chipmunk performing a human,
who does an impression of musical
instruments with his mouth, to show
how music imitates the human voice."



They lived in a much too large corner house.
Not bad located on the Timor Street.
Between the bike racks in the front yard,
was a blue sign, which read:
dentist Haverkamp
for appointments
phone 002349
And with a marker was written:
double o 'two
three four nine
that's my number.
Martha didn't want to be called Sarie
anymore, since Tony had left.
But Ien kept her old name.
Ien Haverkamp, just the mere thought.