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”

sometimes it turns out something you’ve abandoned is way more interesting than the thing you’ve abandoned it for, for real*

jogja bagiku adalah badran bermain dhelikan di sisa kuburan cerita tentang kepala, atau perut yang meledak di krematorium sebelah pesta perak, dan pertanyaan dalam hati banci mana yang akan mengajar ngaji di masjid ppp malam ini? atau mungkin juga bertemu ‘sang pemabuk’ christine ay tjoe di antara s. teddy d. dan athonk di gudang galeriContinue reading “sometimes it turns out something you’ve abandoned is way more interesting than the thing you’ve abandoned it for, for real*”

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”

people take pictures of each other taking pictures of each other

no idea what i thought when i saw yr picture the first time i thought of paris jardin du luxembourg pale frogs sunning themselves in the november cold the pale cream earth of the good arrondisements visiting yr sarcophagus next door at the tombes des grands hommes 100 years y.a.d. get myself a treat ofContinue reading “people take pictures of each other taking pictures of each other”