After Po Chü-i After eating lunch, I feel so 3.0. Waking later, I sip two Ventis of green tea frappuccino, then notice the Sarinah building aslant, the sun already low behind Tenabang again. Joyful people resent Twitterless days. Sad ones can’t bear the slow connection at their offices. It’s those with no joy and noContinue reading “After Lunch”
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a disturbing, twisted work of absolute genius
consider the idea of what happens if you just go away and write. you may not have anything to say. a choice : to make our children safe in the world or to make the world safe for our children. the implications. in the context of today’s politics of oil : we are all implicated.Continue reading “a disturbing, twisted work of absolute genius”
bulu babi di selangkanganmu
blue water like cheap mints. sun = a hot wok. soft hair on your thighs. a hand running over them. hot hot hot out here. the heat heat heat on your ipod. the peace and quiet you’re looking for is down there. under the water rippling = a giant earth-sized rippled potato chip. stick yourContinue reading “bulu babi di selangkanganmu”
Pejah gesang nderek sinuhun
At the grounds of the old palace bare-footed by order of the guards old and wrinkled like the trunks of sawo trees. Cold black sand imported two hundred years ago from 60 miles west the old burnt palace better luck next time. His heels pressed hard on the sand. The sand refused to give in.Continue reading “Pejah gesang nderek sinuhun”
L=A+N-G+UxA:G=E
when it rains it’s the same everywhere. the loud bullets of raindrops on my shoulder as i get out of the centre culturel : the mango tree nods its wide leaves and lets the rain water bend its back like a swimmer on his starting block, then fall, to the steaming earth. the earth, you,Continue reading “L=A+N-G+UxA:G=E”
Mnemosyne
i remember you the center of the universe on a square patch of grass it was early summer the grass was the colour of your hair blond, bits of dark, natural roots as if you and god decide which strands of hair and grass should go ahead and shield the rest from the sun god,Continue reading “Mnemosyne”
The General Theory of Unemployment, No Interest and No Money
the beginning of laissez-faire, or economic possibilities for our grand llamas mikael johani miles away in lima i cocked the tip of my peruvian hat to a shadow of you in the corner of a deserted market the measure of ego: an inquiry into the index numbers of its self-inflation mikael johani and nicholas agafonoffContinue reading “The General Theory of Unemployment, No Interest and No Money”
freckles and bun
gee you look older tonite and you you you’re thinner sort of your cheek’s sort of gone gaunt you look taller i’ve grown a centimetre this year it’s a late growth spurt happened after my dad died and you’re wearing those imitation manolos they’re real manolos really you’re that loaded now? yes all the sinetronContinue reading “freckles and bun”
—at the sentence level
u tried to hit me in the balls and missed i called u a dog becoz i felt like one she secretly hoped at least one of her pupils would put in death be not proud in their anthologies of life-changing poems of my life and no one did and she wondered if then there’sContinue reading “—at the sentence level”
boxing against shadows
what do you do when you can’t think outside the box? do you set up a b&b inside and serve yrself breakfasts of cold bacon strips and crumbly hash browns all day? do you dig invisible tunnels into the center of the earth where box or no box people melt like arby’s cheese into somethingContinue reading “boxing against shadows”
Divagyrations 