(from "The Age of Peace")
As they pulled out her elbow,
indulgence flared up with heat
As the roar died down,
fear seeped into the void
Above it stretched humility with shallow roots
As they broke his knee,
arrogance was sucked
deep into the ground with pus
As the fury subsided,
shame crept into the void
Below it grew a leech as tenacious as tar,
gripping the earth with
a heavy and heavy
and obsessive hold
The suspicious limp swaying of the arms,
the pathetic dawdling of the legs,
no longer carried the plague
The world still looked strange,
but at last it was at peace.
(from "Social Animals")
What's the most depressing is
To hear hopeful words
From their feigned concern;
If they don't see with their own eyes
They never believe or even
Imagine something in you
And if you hurry to dance
To their tune to shut their mouths
They eventually fail to contain
Their sincerity, just burst into a laugh.
(from "fragments of ennui")
grains of white dust, stickily settled on the void
floundering flies, trapped in the air
red bones and damp wet soil
the black nail, cursing its own death
yellow lumps of fat, morbidly
poured into the drain
the caprice of flies and the malice of spiders
the only things that smile at us
in the void on the blade
the power of anxiety, a deadly greed that melts
the brain, among them, what blue anxiety
likes the most, air and resistance
admiration and contempt, something like love and hate,
something like the foolish youthful heart
toward a beast living only on instinct
ideas and trivial jokes
reality, illusions, delusions, ideals
compassion, denial, turning away, darkness
regret, death, loss, past, faith, distrust, doubt
an empty black mouth like the whitened
cloudy eyes of a turtle
Fire, sea, fall.
the sea, always the abject of fear
not even a handful of void
did the sea allow
(from "a candlelight") there's a candlelight in my heart that always precariously flickers with their own eyes with their own blue lines it's a meaningless world for truth say their own eyes, say their own blue lines, but my candlelight would never flicker like this ravingly if they're right
(from "a cave")
a cave
with lively bats
those covetous eyes
fat sly claws
greenish bellies
full of sour old pride
vice
or stupidity
the only knife
that can be embedded in their hearts
(from "One Afternoon") lying on the bed where pieces of my lips are scattered, thinking of the short stories of Sait Faik, savoring songs of an inexplicable-named band, wondering if her desperate look in the movie was real,
(from "The Color Theory") I'd rather open my eyes, look at the light and bring the paper back which I threw it far away savor the childish splendor I couldn't understand why they were getting so upset
(from "the most stale and old value")
what people are passionate about
is the most stale and old value
now the absolute truth left for them
is only what they hate the most
a swarm of infested maggots
over the rotting bodies
over their unpleasantly cold bodies
because
their deaths would be most immoral
(from "Hypocrite") With the scent of earth, a hint of spring rises again, with some anxiety, my mind begins to be chased, with warm expectation, intolerant Christians begin again prancing around the streets, ringing the bell for the season of the party, with their selfish, indifferent ignorance, which disguised as something grievously ordinary.