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I used to want to ownA small one-room flatI overcome, I overcomeI used to like this joband I grow, I grow.I can’t own a small flat, fine.I want a house I can’t have.I want room to grow, not work from home.I don’t want to stay in and save.Not anymore, no.I’m taking my partner out on […]

I’m selfishI want to be alone now. I want to be left alone to do the thing I do when I’m aloneto think that I work hard and get nothing in return and think some more… I could be cooking when I’m hungry,I could be letting go when I’m lonely.But I don’t want to,That’s the […]

What I mostly want is to wake up.Laying next to the granite floor. Waking up as in the act.Waking up is just that. I wake up perhaps to the cold, to a family member gossiping on the balcony or to the children outside yelling, and I would probably hate it. I remain silent. Mesmerized by […]

A slow man, melting, sitting on the bench of a lonesome park. The meaning of time passes by while birds fly into the grey sky. Buildings lack the significance that they were once built upon. People flow on the streets like streams of water underneath the concrete, streams that can only rise to the surface […]

‘It doesn’t feel like Christmas at all!’Goes that song about Christmas.He begs their partner to come back home.I guess he needs someone to split the energy bill with.

Rhythmic poetry exercise, using word association from the poetry workshop from the shiiku._community with imanwest_ at Strange Brew, Bristol. I tried my best to follow the rhythm. However, I didn’t get to quite write these on the beat. I did like some of the ideas that came out of this week’s workshop, and I thought one of the poems is […]