Hartford, September 7/27 Halo Williams, Aku kembalikan cartolina postale di poste italiane da Rapallo-mu, ya. Terima kasih banyak. Tapi percayalah, signor, aku sibuk sesibuk Mussolini yang Agung. Aku bangun subuh, cukur jenggot, etc; jam enam aku senam; jam tujuh aku dipijat dan mandi; jam delapan aku coba makan pagi; jam setengah sembilan sampai setengah sepuluhContinue reading “Untuk William Carlos Williams”
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les animaux domestiques
i marvelled you everyone in the class your workshirts so crisp ! we talked Botswana Zambie Afrique du Sud who won Miss Universe 2003 ? elle a été noire ! really ? you said your eyes met mine and yours disappeared into slits as you lol pareille au cheval =D i’m a moslem i’m notContinue reading “les animaux domestiques”
tubagus angke
on my way to the Chinese House of Mourning i saw girls in mini skirts sitting cross-legged on plastic green stools on the river banks (electric! in the cars’ headlights!) “we sit cross-legged so there’s less skin exposed so there’s more for the men to see” everything here’s done out of modesty and the desire for commerce “look at the brightContinue reading “tubagus angke”
sentimentality is the evillest luxury
she wishes nothing will make her angry anymore. she hates that lump in the throat that shoots pain both down to her heart and up into her eyes. the lump is a water pistol, it squirts tears into her eyes and sadness into her heart. she knows it’s ridiculous to see her anger in theseContinue reading “sentimentality is the evillest luxury”
from kwitang to kebon kacang. on foot. it took three hours if you wanna know.
a government that doesn’t take care of its elderly and weak is EVIL. school of government
Two Girls & Me
S.M. Ardan I’m just waiting until I get paid Then I’ll ask Girl Number One out for dinner We’ll eat & drink Smell the roses in the evening air If the weather is fine We’ll talk about love My head feels heavy, & my chest, & my pockets & my stomach empty I’ll goContinue reading “Two Girls & Me”
Memotret dan merekam Indonesia
Detik-detik Indonesia/Indonesisches Sekundenbuch Martin Jankowski IndonesiaTera, Desember 2005 120 halaman Buku ini saya temukan di rak Novel Indonesia di Gramedia Plaza Semanggi. Sampulnya potret pasar basah sehabis hujan, dua orang perempuan muda tertawa lebar di atas sepeda motor bebek Yamaha merah, seorang ibu-ibu cemberut berjilbab hot pink naik sepeda jengki di belakangnya, semuanya di atasContinue reading “Memotret dan merekam Indonesia”
Yang hilang dalam Ellipsis
Ellipsis: poems and prose poems Laksmi Pamuntjak Jakarta: Pena Klasik, 2005 89 halaman Buku kecil berwarna biru gelap berisi sajak dan sajak prosa bahasa Inggris Laksmi Pamuntjak ini mengejutkan karena saya tidak menyangka Laksmi bisa menulis seperti ini. Dia lebih terkenal (dan mungkin hanya di antara gastronomer Jakarta) sebagai penulis Jakarta Good Food Guide yangContinue reading “Yang hilang dalam Ellipsis”
two lovers entwined, pass me bye bye bye
the world stops in the heart of the city a queen big ideas throbbing in her teased quiff an ex-first lady in a wheelchair her words fly above the head of the crowd a celebrity activist her hair wet from patchouli and sweat of 11 a.m. her left leg limping from a kick right inContinue reading “two lovers entwined, pass me bye bye bye”
you, and whose army?
The back of my neck hurts like an army of red ants Lady-farmers stomp up and down the golden hairs of dead paddies What would come out of the ivory white of my spine? red army
Divagyrations 