loneliness
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Blah Blah Blah
My friend took me to meet a pastor who cooks great wild boar, and as the man grilled me on what I did and what I plan to do (the usual Indian ‘uncle’ questions), I wanted to be anywhere but there, but today, I realised that I always want to be anywhere but where I… Continue reading
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Ashen
Looking back on the silence that defined the last ten years, the stillness that echoed, the lifeless status quo like the arthritic five fingers of the first line of a terrible haiku, I wonder how I endured the passage of time, day shifting into another day without anything… Continue reading
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Swamp monster
He rises from the muddy, yellowish water, malodorous with red antlers and five eyes with fiery irises, they shrink back when they see him, some run, scream or faint, he wonders why. Isn’t this Babylon? Country of debauchery and vice where succubi seduce and lunatics expound twisted philosophies? Why then am I despised when everyone… Continue reading
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A rondeau for the ostracised
Find me outside the temple gates on littered streets Where beggars roam and hawkers sell their rancid meats Where lepers and malingerers don’t have a chance At ever swaying to the beat of Triumph’s dance Where you’ll find rickety, old huts with threadbare sheets. Here succubi know men, and the unclean beast eats Here thrones… Continue reading
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An escape
I stopped watching the Fast & Furious series after the 4th movie, they’re probably racing on Mars now, or have introduced a multiverse where they go head-to-head with aliens in little vinyl-wrapped, gaudy spaceships – the pinks, greens and oranges, a fluorescent display of nauseating self-indulgence highlighting everything that’s wrong with the world. I don’t… Continue reading
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Bleak
Under the dying light, snow blankets the land like the white fur covering a rabbit, the greying spruce look like monoliths symbolising adages: sayings of a bygone era that make no difference to me as I trudge, knock-kneed, oblivious to the ticking clock. I cling to nostalgia like a melancholy psalm that never finds catharsis,… Continue reading
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