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Memo

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Cold concrete floor pressing against the flesh
reminds me the truth that light in the breath
still glows as the darkness remains stretched

dreams and memories amalgamate in shadow
leaving a question: ‘what’s the memo for tomorrow?’

a drop of achromatic black coffee, a piece of shredded dead skin, and a glint in the eye akin.

12.8.2020

Say

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carrying a coal on my back,
I swam across a bank of oil
perhaps I paddled too blindly
perhaps I swam too blithely

In the darkest corner of the night
awoke a flame as if out of spite

scarred all-over,
but no matter,
for the ride on wave
is yet to end

12.2.2020

River

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This river, in particular,

does not overflow, spilling its guts

onto the sidewalk for pedestrians to walk.

These invisible gangs of droplets, all crumble into

this narrow valley of single destination in an instant.

Ever-so permanent, yet ever-so changing,

the river continues to flow at the same height.

Fast and frivolous, slow and serious,

purely clear, and muddily thick ones

all sang a song that flashed an instant,

then disappeared from the pedestrian’s iris,

burning its imagery into the memory.

9.25.2020

Mutant

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Stranded into a world

unimagined,

I find this life too nauseating.

before I can finish puking

all of my undigested rage and confusion,

I tripped and fell into an eternal ennui,

a space of blankness, grains of abysmal calmness fill.

I dig a black hole to engulf all this in a blink,

splitting a tiniest particle unfathomable to a naked eye.

Now,

for now,

I breath.

9.24.2020