Accordeonist

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Zaterdag keek hij tegen de felle maar kille zon in terwijl de snijdende oostenwind met de stroom van de Kostverlorenvaart mee blies. Naast de deur van de Aldi. Z'n muziek blijmoedig, een herhaling van telkens dezelfde reeks noten die door de herhaling experimenteel leek, alsof er ergens een draaimolen op hol was geslagen en er geen kind meer op of af kon.

Ik mocht een foto van 'm maken maar zijn hoofd leek wel uit steen gehouwen en zijn ogen bleven verborgen in het duister onder de klep van z'n pet.

Vandaag is het nog kouder onder de grijze lucht. Als ik met m'n camera bij hem kom is hij net bezig zijn spullen in te pakken. Hij speelt nog wat laatste noten tot ik m'n foto's heb gemaakt en dit keer kijken we elkaar aan.

"Samen boeken wij succes"



[English:
I saw him last saturday already when he played at the same spot next to the entrance of the ALDI very-low-budget supermarket. It was quite cold then with a fierce eastern wind along the canal but it was very sunny as well and his face seemed made of stone. His eyes remained in the dark under the rim of his hat. He played a happy melody but it was short and he played it endlessly in repetition, as if somewhere a merry-go-round had gone berserk and no kid could climb or leave it anymore. Next to where he sat, there's a sign on the postbox saying NO NO meaning the tenants there don't want commercial folders nor any mail without their name on it.

Today it's colder but no sun and the sky is grey. I saw him playing there again but when I approached, he was just leaving. He played some last notes for me until I'd made my pictures and this time our eyes did meet. The truck next to him says "together we will be successful" (literally "together we book success" referring to it being a bus from the public library).
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