LOVE MELODIES

What is love according to you? Was asked to a 10 year old . “If you find someone super nice, nicer then nicer.” What is lust? “That you like something, like pizza?” Sex? “Uhu…” Do you know what sex is? “No, only with the cows. With that cow's penis in the other cow's vagina.”

“In 1941 I was 10 years old. My love life started when I was 20 years old. I got married in 1957. I had never seen a girl naked before! I was green, I knew nothing. And then, 70 years ago, there was Gerda. I am now 92 years old, and I am now at 97% of my sex life. So I still have 3% left. How much more do you have ahead of you? “Just do the math,” Tim said, laughing. Now you have bought tickets, but for what? Sex? Sex money? Now I'm standing here with all my clothes still on. That may be disappointing as a beginner. Sex takes place in the mind, says Tim. “A dirty mind is enjoyed forever.”

What do I use for a dry vagina? To which Anny responded: “You can even order that lubricant from Wehkamp!” How about foreplay, Margriet said? Hell, that's possible too!, Anny responded.

I'm a timid man, and I was 17 years old. I tried to hit on girls when I was waiting at the bus stop. Each girl responded with “Oh, I see my bus!” “Oh, sorry, I have to go!” Then on that one day I was at the bus stop again. There was a bronze Zeeland girl. I thought now is my chance. Now it must happen. Adrie got his first kiss. “That left me wanting more!” My first kiss… pfff, said Anny. 'I tasted the taste of tobacco mixed with Sibo.'

“I never doubted, no no never. The first meeting at the fair in Breda was at the poffertjes stall. I was a good kisser, Arie said. At least that's what the girls said.” “Do you want to ask for offers?” she asked. Believe it or not, all I could do was look at her. I wanted to have sex, but I had to wait until after the wedding. And that was damn difficult, I can tell you.”

“I give you a Rose, my Rose. I'll give you a rose every day. And I love you, until the meadow has no dew and the echo does not smile for a laugh.”

“Do you want to buy condoms?” one whispered to the other. “Shhhh! Not so hard! I was 18 years old in 1970, and of course I had sex before marriage, haha. We made love in the barn, in the stable, in our father's car and in grandma's room when she wasn't home, because that's where the stove was on. That car was small and the gear lever was also in the way. And if you thought that was the worst, you don't know what happened next. A large car parked behind us and shined its big headlights right in at the back windows. The police! We went on vacation and our mother said, “You bring them back the way they went!” Pointing a finger at my girlfriend. Our mother was oh so afraid that I would come back pregnant. We lay in a tent on the bank of the river. It rained a lot during the holidays, but that didn't bother us much, hihi.”

“Secret of a good marriage: talk well and keep making love!” “My husband was very sensitive to other women.”

“Thea met Klaas in Africa, but Klaas was already married. Writing without touching each other, no opportunity to look each other in the eye, to express your feelings, no half words because that is not possible. No assumptions because I didn't have any, I fell madly in love with Klaas. But Klaas was married. A little later Klaas returned to the Netherlands. I received letters, stacks of letters. Klaas wrote: 'I'm getting a divorce, dearest, I'm coming!' And we got married in 1961.” 

"Dancing?" said Arie, 'I don't lead, they lead me.' "I think as long as you hold me tight," Arie laughed cheerfully. My wife got sick. I had to take care of her. I touched her and I gave her a kiss. I undid her nightgown button by button. I started washing her. Very carefully and slowly. My hand on her skin made me warm, very warm. We no longer had sex like most people, but this made it very intimate for us…”

“At school with the nuns we had to go to confession all day and we were taught about a vagina and penis on a flannel board with loose flannel figures. The nuns explained how babies were made. 'Daddy takes off his underwear. There is a 'pepke' there, a 'pestle'. Mom does the same and stands in her 'flamoes'. Dad excited about Mom's peach. Thumper becomes pestle and then daddy's pestle goes into mommy's front bibs.”

“Sex toys? Internet or sex shop, just use the internet. I find it a bit exciting to go to the sex shop. I threw the first toy in the trash because it was nothing. The second toy was okay. The game of lust, I now know how nice it can be to play the game together as a couple. Lust, you can be really looking forward to vegetable soup that your mother prepared. But that's not what it's about, lust is lust, it's a fantasy that you have to fill in yourself. Age is just a number, her eyes are not in her pockets.”

“They said that it would actually be best for Gerda to go to a closed ward, she didn't really remember. And now she's gone, and now I'm home alone, and I go to bed alone at night. Half the bed is empty. I'll just say goodnight to Gerda against a photo of her. I had this enlarged on canvas. I can say sleep well darling, but hey, it's just canvas. Have you seen your father and mother yet? Yes, I have seen them, yes, they are doing well. Oh, I like that you said that to me. And then I get the cookies, wafers that she loved. But the last waffle is always for me. She always gave me the last wafer. I knew one of us would die first. I feel her slowly disappearing into a world I don't know. A world that is not mine.”

Inspired by the performance Lust Liefde Age by the theater group Zout.