i always wanted to have a gallery art show.
my kids would like it.

to have a show i need to be friends with curators.
for twenty five years i have been meeting curators
but they have always been strange to me.

one told me:
you are not young, you are not famous, do not send me anything.
another one told me:
there are only two artists that matter, and you are not one of them.
one booked a show with me,
cancelled it because of illness, and never called me back.

i do not know what the problem is,
but i just can not have fun with curators.
it is an impossible clique to enter.

when you copy
you only copy
the superficial stuff
while the meaning
is never copied
and the copy
has your meaning
which is not a copy
of the original meaning.
watch lost highway.

never be afraid or shy
to ask critical questions.
never care if you are called
rude or stupid or not cool or crazy.
never think that you are not
eloquent or stylish enough.

always remember
that asking critical questions
in any form and style
is the best prevention
against kids raping parties,
school shootings, and wars.

every week
i invent a new business
which would surely
make me and my family
a ton of money.

but i never do it
because i would need to do
years and years
of boring repetitive work
and this is pure hell for me.

sorry kids,
i will not leave you millions
because i get easily bored.

the greatest error
in my life so far is
not playing tennis
with irena and wyne
in amsterdam
this weekend.

i will never be able
to correct this error.
the damage is made.
opportunity is missed.
i will somehow learn
to live with it.

i never again
want to wear a backpack.
they make me heavier,
they make my back much bigger,
they make me sweat,
and i always have to come up
with stuff to put in them.
it is not enough that i never use one.
i want them ended. forever.
please.

the word democracy is meaningless,
and is used to centralize power
like never before in human history.

what we are told democracy is
has never existed,
and probably never will exist.

we need a new better idea.

every time i walked next
one of those street fruit displays
i was tempted to steal
a banana or an apple
but i never did it

politicians
use school shootings
and climate crisis
to promote themselves
which means
these problems will
never be solved.

however
scientists would solve
both of these problems
over a weekend.

artificial intelligence
will never be able
to write this poem

i do not like hollywood
because they never
made a movie
with a main character
with whom i can
identify with

there are two types of people:
those who believe
only few are ubermensch
and everyone else
is not and never will be,
and those who believe
everyone is or will be
an ubermensch.

never work for the first type.
give everything you can
to the second type.

all bad things
started as good things
which eventually became bad
because they lingered long enough
and nothing new and better
replaced them.

the only way
to never have bad things
is to always
quickly replace good things
with new good things.

you are a good writer
only when you know
that you will never
fully express yourself
with words,
that no one will ever know
who you are
and that you will never know
who anyone is.

when my father died
i am hundred percent sure
that part of him
became a part of me.

so parts of my grandfather
and my great grandfather
and everyone before
became part of me as well.

i will never join
your stupid
piece of shit cause.
fuck you!

refuse to be small,
refuse to be powerless,
refuse to be insignificant,
refuse to not be able
to make the entire world
the way you feel or think
it should be.

we create celebrities
as instruments of our will.
we are never their instruments.

never forget that
someone synchronized
fellini’s la dolce vita

as soon as i become famous
my poetry will be erased
because it is not binary

never forget that
you do not care about money
and you only use it as a tool

as long as we are mortal
we will never outrun death
with unlimited growth

my poetry
is defined by
artificial intelligence
in a sense
that i will
never use it
to write poetry.

cash bribery represents
a lack of prejudice
allowing everyone equally to buy power.

if you can not simply buy power with cash
you will never have it
most likely because of some idiotic prejudice.

my poems are better than
education
news
hollywood
politics
corporations
because
all i do is tell you the truth
and they don’t

prostitutes are super smart
and anyone who says otherwise
was never with a prostitute
or has never understood
what a prostitute does

it is a mistake
to ban pro-putin art from la biennale
because
war is only a symptom
and we will never eradicate it
if we do not understand the cause

hypes come quickly
and erase old niche wisdom

hypes pass quickly
but old niche wisdom never comes back

after hundred hypes
no old niche wisdom remains

and the only thing people know how to do
is to follow more hypes

since 1990 until 2022
i have been listening to you
telling me how stupid and evil i am
and you never convinced me
nor anyone else who met me.
you did not win and you never will!
fuck you!

one way to be aggressive
and really hurt people
is to strongly support their belief
that they are perfect as they are
making sure they never grow

you never know
when you will write
a good poem

you write a lot of
really bad poems
and suddenly
there is a good one

every person
has a number of political choices
and in a political duopoly
two parties will divide
all these choices
between them
creating
two highly hateful groups.

this kind of bullshit
will keep on going
with every new choice
for thousands of years
because these two parties
will never allow
any change.

i will never again
be able to write poems
as i wrote them
three hours ago

all empires fall
because they stick
to something that worked before
and continues working
only because it worked before
but would never work
if it started over again now

the scariest thing
about hollywood is
that it has
programmed me
to be something
which is not me
and therefore i have
never existed
and my entire life
was lost

i was thinking about
sending my poems as a newsletter
and i never did it
until now.

for ten years
every day
i ask martina
if she loves me
and she never
answers

i am so smart
i could just explode

i am so smart
i should never die
and if i ever die
every second of my life
should be studied by
million scientists

i am so smart
that i can only
talk to
dolphins and aliens

i am so smart
so gods envy me

i am so smart
if you smell my fart
you can learn
all the secrets
of the universe

i will
NEVER
write a poem
about
die antwoord