When I was young, I did a lot of stupid things. For example, I went to college, studied a major that I hated for four years, slept with women I don’t like, and accepted a job just for its salary.
I had to make ends meet, back in those days. I studied, worked ten hours per week, then cared for my family. Whenever I came back to my apartment, I just complained to my roommates how stupid this is.
M...
Stand behind the backdrop
I breathe
I search
For something familiar
In vain
I come a long way
To be listened
To be heard
I see the velvet green
So much like the woolen
Chair
On the flight that send me here
Where the sky is forever blue
And trees countless, zigzagging across the lanes
Requesting more
Yet more
From their Mother
To be capable
Of an eventual escape
Winter befalls
Under th...
“Shoot!” He screams uselessly. A chill thrill down his spine, adereline ready to send him into fight or flight. All he can feel is chill air filling his hands, the next second his body throwing freely against the will of gravity.
Wind is blowing in his face, cutting directly into his skin and veins like sharpened knife. Some say you see your whole life before you die. Others say only the dearest ...
Sometime you gotta close the door to open a window.
“It’s hard to juggle through your life.” She says, throwing three oranges at a time.
“Like what you’re doing right now?” He says, face cold and stern. It was supposed to be a joke.
“Hey, don’t be bitter. I was just kidding.” She spares him a glimpse, carelessly speeding up her action. The light fragrances of orange are expanded with the heat i...
“Let’s say…18 inches in head-to-body length and 9.1-9.8 inches in height. Looks all good…skeleton I’ve double checked. Strictly adhere to cat anatomy and should allow maximum mobility and balance… What’s next…For claws we have four, each with toes…”
The workroom is dark, filled with rusty smell. Bunch of wrenches, nails and tin lay around the corner, spread out messily like they’ve been turned ov...
She’s beside the chimney.
April says, “It’s tough. You know, I gonna feed my baby. I gonna work after this, another job after this. I go home and I see him sleeping. He sleeping in the bed. And I thought to myself ‘hell, I forgot to take him out of the bed!’ You know what I’m saying? He’s like two years old, and I forgot to lethim out.” April emphasizes on ‘forgot’.
She gave April a look. She ha...
Hands on the stove
I fly across the plain
Sun,
Dives into the memory
The entry of which
Is but a bleeding wound.
Shines,
With all power
With all force
With His Will
Bleeding,
The atoms clash
Bounce into a deserted shelf
Ret on the vast field
Of Mississippi
I bite the hands that feeds me
So that one day,
It’ll let me starve....
She liked to play hide and seek. Under a banyan, she hid inside the convoluted air roots. Oftentimes she stayed there until dusk. Nobody found her, and she went home.
She never talked quite much. In classes, in girl’s circle. No one talked a lot in school. In tedious summer daylight, the teacher lectured on and on into a infinite black hole. She faced sleepiness, emptied inside out, like a worm h...
