PART OF THE EISENBAHNERHEIM

is this little house, deserted now of people, of the horses too and in some time the leaves from the big surrounded trees will cover it.
See it in autumn and our romantic hearts hear the violins almost play to accompany our dear sentiments.
In Mischa's yesterday's blip of a beerbottle at the beach I saw an eye of an animal. But what animal I asked myself. The bottle itself a very long mouth, so it had to be a ..... I knew what animal but the word for it was nowhere to find in my mind. I searched for quite a while and then in my comment I wrote that I saw the eye of an alligator :). That would do too I thought. But I kept surprised that I did not find the name of the other similar animal. How could that be vanished? No nice feeling that the name of a simple animal can be lost.
Names of course I easily forget and Piet Hein too he says often "dinges" or "dingetje" and sometimes we search together and suddenly out of the blue it pops up and happily we laugh about it.
So unsatisfied, in the evening I ask Piet Hein what is the name of that animal in the water that has big teeth? The answer is: a shark? Well, no, it has four legs and can come out of the water. ? ?, he wonders. He/she swims in the Nile for instance. A crocodile!
What strange name that is, in dutch: krokodil.
This morning I know why the name did not come up. It is a harmless animal unless you come too close near him/her. The dangerous word kept hidden for a good reason.

My haiku:

Come into the river
The water is delicious warm
Forgotten the past

And the proverb:

Many complain of their memory, but few of their judgment.