You’re very welcome!

 

I regularly fold glue traps shut

while they still squeak,

hit them with my flashlight

to cave in skulls, release

that might not rhyme

but gets easier after so many

and you get to cry murder. 

 

Racket flutters to and from

young life in a nest

above shit covered chairs

on the balcony of nr. 7

This might be a verse

without mild irony or cause

but I’ve got necks to break?

 

It takes about twenty liters

and what used to be a home

turned another junkie den

before every flea is dead.

I might miss the poetry

scene even less, with as 

foul reeking, bloated meaning.

Benne van der Velde is a poet, bad playwright, former rapper/average singer and more. Always needing more. After thoroughly enjoying the Dutch slam poetry scene in the early and mid 2000s (wins in 7 cities + eventually a place in the Nationals of 2012) and performances at the Lowlands- and Parade festivals a/o, Benne successfully made the transition from the stage to paper by signing his first publishing deal etc, etc, etc.

 

 http://www.linkedin.com/in/benne-van-der-velde-8b17a7296