three pears rot in a metal bowl. i’ve stopped washing my rice. i wish estraven had made it across the snow bog. some pages you just don’t understand. a distal phalanx gives you an entire universe. it was my fault/i forgive you. i do not forgive you. how many stars? how many ways of beingContinue reading “select”
Category Archives: English
nibi-iro
you’re in rude health a bubble protected by maiming a universe of malice milk blooms in a gutter respite is rare death undoes so many glue yourself to your screen
TKKG
too early for flowers to bloom shit hits the fan but your hand slips into mine and the heat between our skin turns liquid metal
IOU
the night is decrepit. tempus, fuck it. i needed to know, now, i know. come closer. justice for the nonce, meng? cor, blimey. quiz me on vices, orthodoxies, proprieties, o seed of love! the pier is rotting, your pretty feet, a saving grace. banish me to the realm of letters, imbibe regret with every oxfordContinue reading “IOU”
ramsay
hey, i went there again yesterday. about the same time we went there 11 years ago. same liquid yellow sun. same special fx glow on the leaves and the life of concrete around us. there is a flyover now where there was a railroad track. it was quiet there, unlike then when we visited. thisContinue reading “ramsay”
tewas 2
they’re all tevas to me. you might have a different name, but i have never remembered it. do you think a bullet can bounce off a car window? the maître d’s cheong sam looked a bit dishevelled. two days ago. she said my sentences run on to each other. some of them just don’t work.Continue reading “tewas 2”
AWAY WITH WIJI THUKUL*
AWAY WITH WIJI THUKUL I The sun was orange in the summer. The grass smelt like fresh bread. Wiji Thukul didn’t like bread; he spent every morning boiling rice in a dented saucepan. The water always spilt over the edge of the single-serve pan, bubbling like soap. Wiji would lean over his rice like aContinue reading “AWAY WITH WIJI THUKUL*”
van der Tuuk you old goat
‘i am not here!’ ha you were never there not in yr head Herman Neubronner you lost it in a Rampokan Jawa some nautical miles off the margins of yr mind skin the beast chariot-break it it’s one’s civilization that isContinue reading “van der Tuuk you old goat”
arch
you’re pretty as a shadow a thin shroud packed in rays of neon i took a flight of fancy i broke the keel on my wild boat your heels, lifted off the ground tempat berlindung di hari tua saat sepi menutup mata
sorry, states
the ground beneath your feet is rarely solid you go through states of deception to make each experience sound
Divagyrations 