20.30. Difilm-film Usmar Ismail orang menyebutnya Metropole. Membeli tiket seringgit daricalo pelit di ujung tangga. Yang sekarang bertegel merah bata. Karcis kertasminyak kuning tanpa judul. Nomor kursi ditulis tangan, hampir tak terbaca. Pintu teater 6telah dibuka. Masuklah kami ke teater 4. Rol film terbakardi layar. Lihat lantainya, bagaimana bisa sekotor itu?Continue reading “JAKARTA OVERSLUT”
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aduh aku lupa selotip sol pumps jimmy choo yang aku pinjam dari 707 dan sekarang hidupku tinggal abu
Langit turun sejengkalDan di trotoar seorang pengarah gaya mencontek Chagall
The World is a Different Place When You Look Up
I like James Laughlinbecause he’d keep at a poemkeep keeping at itonly stopping when, *Applause*,until, *More applause*,it gave out on him.He didn’t hold anything backdidn’t keep anything for, “Later …”He floated the whole of his iceberg.He wrote mediocre poems because all that.But I like himbecause I wanna get at the truth tooand an iceberg willContinue reading “The World is a Different Place When You Look Up”
BERITA HARI INI 1200 TAHUN YANG LALU
Gajah Mada, apakah benarRaja Irlandia senang menukar puisiBukan dengan kudaTapi sapi?
Align Right
maafkan aku kalau baru sekarang menyapamukita sudah begitu lama tak bertemudan hati jadi gagu
“often we pay homage to appropriate moral sentiments while our real feelings drift elsewhere.”
then what do you remember? the uncut elephant grass in your backyard? how it made you see green when i let you fondle my breasts? white as winter. “they’re so white they’re blue,” you said. or maybe it was someone else who said. when it comes to memories mammaries things are as slippery as, you’veContinue reading ““often we pay homage to appropriate moral sentiments while our real feelings drift elsewhere.””
SEMENTARA BIARLAH BEGINI
the koran on the floor covers up vomit that leaks out of the serrated edges of the paper like, what, ya, what, blood running down the small channel for the blood of the sacrificed lambs in the temple mount. in the b.c. days. in the a.d. version of the last tempation of christ. i don’tContinue reading “SEMENTARA BIARLAH BEGINI”
LINNER KILES
“you don’t have the decency to change the sheets” “walau kamu / tak semancung / gunung-gunung di belahan bumi pertiwi” “i know it isn’t real love / that you see in her eyes / ’cause she’s never / met a man she didn’t like” “i’m tired of living like an eskimo!” “just before our loveContinue reading “LINNER KILES”
el nyinyo
Awan pecah dan matahari memeras darah. Pojok kota bergerak menuju pasak: Sebuah mal biru dan rendevu orang-orang bisu.
W.
di pulau itu langit tidak biru dan matahari adalah cahaya lambat di pucuk karang. warna yang tersisa hanya oranye rompi penyelamat dan jambon tripang di pasir pucat. terumbu pun terbelah dua dan dermaga terserak bersama kaleng coca-cola. di sumur hangat kau kail air putih tuak dengan ember hitam dan seutas tambang. angin diam bakau sepertiContinue reading “W.”
Divagyrations 