René van Densen

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Struggle

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Even from a great distance I saw exactly how it went wrong, how the man jogging put his foot wrong, bent his leg and fell. With a loud splash he fell into the water. For a moment everything waved and then his arms struggled above water. Wild panic. The man screamed for help – apparently he couldn’t swim. What kind of person goes jogging next to a canal when you can’t swim, I thought, while I walked towards the scene. I saw other people running who were closer, so I didn’t walk too fast. Energy has been a valuable commodity these days.
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Pigeon

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And so the other pigeons told me to go somewhere, and I went there, and there was nothing. Loads and loads of nothing in all directions, as far as my eye could spy. I wondered what I was supposed to be doing there. I guess I should know, because the other pigeons go here, and they figure it out. But all I saw was nothing. Until I looked up.

There it was. Majestic, blindingly white, otherworldly smooth, and cutting through the sky like a hawk’s claw. So I flapped up and joined it, best I could. Seemed like a better place to be than some nowhere full of nothing.
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