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Still counting?

it never ends
does it?

always one thing or another

counting school days
or school years
college semesters
or job applications
failed dates
or wedding … Read more

I asked the candle: “Why do you shed tears when there is light?”

He replied: “I wash away the pain from when it is dark.”… Read more

odor
piquant
yet pleasant

effect
disarming
yet coherent

juniper
in gin
seductive

sand
flat
as far as eyes
see

sun
scorching
smoldering
silent sea

stem
succulent
soothes
stranded me

I caved
I could not compete
force of nature
my fiercest foe

I succumbed
sweet seduction
serenading lust
angel of disguise

I bought
time to … Read more

It was a night of no stars and no twinkling wannabes. For one night, this night, he had washed the Hollywood dust off himself and … Read more

Raw Sex

Pure Heroin

Russian Roulette

all placebo stimulants.

To get to the “real thing”, I took a bucket, shoved it down my … Read more

Tomorrow is Nowruz, the Persian new year. It inspired me to write this poem in Farsi (translation further below):

عید ایران
 عید رنگارنگ

عید

60 beats per minute…               doesn’t excite
120 beats per minute…             barely touches
200 beats per minute…             never kills

Slow caress… doesn’t excite
Dirty dancing… barely … Read more

I’m not one to argue, to take stands, to care
my silence is my shield, my apathy my cure

my face points sideways, my eyes … Read more