5
fivehundred Africans
from south of the Sahara
climbed the border fence with ladders
some fell down
or called down injuries
on themselves in police skirmishes
tides arise
in the oceans and move
to the shores
where they appear
as a regular rise
and fall
of the water surface
a very reliable movement
people died
people died in the fire
fire broke out it became a furnace
far from the passenger terminal
this poem appeared in De Gids_1 (2008)