Author Archives: mikaeljohani

yr pubic hair / is everywhere

the twirls of hair in front of her ears. the young moon of folds above her eyes. the week-old scar of a squeezed acne a centimetre above her left eyebrow. the scar is small, the size and colour of a dark star. the strange centre of her hair, somewhere in the middle of the backContinue reading “yr pubic hair / is everywhere”

im taking the pigs eyes out and ate them

warm milkserved in cold whiteglass pouredinto—weak coffeedripped from two-headedspout steamingfrom its own heatcontrolled by handstrained by Swiss-accreditedhotel academies—work experiencesspent sticking tiny mirrorsunder doorsconnecting doors—watch the reflectionsof hurried love-makinghands on the wrong placestongue missing the tipsof lipslovers movein ancient chairswith detachable backsas if attachmentto modern love practiceswas taboo—and a man thumbedfamiliar numberson poly-pixelated screenand waited forContinue reading “im taking the pigs eyes out and ate them”

Cruel angles of buildings

the sky props up the earth the sky props up the earth paints itself blue with melting snow the upward                 downward flight of the soul the upward                         downward flight of the soul the sky is a highschool blackboard filled to the edges with scribblings ofContinue reading “Cruel angles of buildings”

The world priced two digits beyond purchase

see pictures thru words pasticheur rococo chiaroscuro transitoriness pointilism divisionism primary colours so what if the land is less pretty no more seagulls frozen in mid-airno more dry harmless rust on sharp corners of rubbish binsno more uninterrupted carvings of easy-going open-armed sandstonesno more so what!

Puri Beta Town Square Junction Central Business District E-Xtainment Centre

The shock has faded from the applegreen                of children’s water-spray guns From the hot-pink of ice-cream cones                now pale like the palm of their hands The children’s eyes have lost                their palimpsest whiteness The blacks acquired the brown                of the streets where theyContinue reading “Puri Beta Town Square Junction Central Business District E-Xtainment Centre”

The kind of love you see only in movies and probably only Wong Kar-wai’s or maybe Mark Linklater’s but Fellini’s good too though maybe his love is for god not man oh and or Truffaut now he loves man and their follies but if i was Antoine Doinel wd he find love for me I mean I know Maggie Cheung is married to a French auteur but I was always more interested in Mrs. Chan and her multicoloured cheongsams anyway dan jangan lupa Kiarostami!

aku tidak percaya kamu hanya tidak sengajamemasak sirup wijen sebelangatapi aku tidak akan membocorkannyasuamimu sudah pulang menunggu nasi masak di rice cookernya kubur aku malam hari nantitumpahkan saja semua kerikil, puntung rokok, tai kucingpanggil namaku tiga kalikalau aku tidak menjawabitu berarti aku memang tidak takut mati untuk apa kau membuntuti badut akrobat itumasakkan lagi akuContinue reading “The kind of love you see only in movies and probably only Wong Kar-wai’s or maybe Mark Linklater’s but Fellini’s good too though maybe his love is for god not man oh and or Truffaut now he loves man and their follies but if i was Antoine Doinel wd he find love for me I mean I know Maggie Cheung is married to a French auteur but I was always more interested in Mrs. Chan and her multicoloured cheongsams anyway dan jangan lupa Kiarostami!”