tell me/ what were the names/ of the other women/ in the family tree/ no one seems to remember?
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
-
Monday, February 8, 2021
animal
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
straphanger -
Monday, October 5, 2020
letter to my friends far away
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
range
they built
a new road. each time the taxi
this is the
new road. a new development, smooth addition to potholed streets, uneven
takes me,
always a he, says: have you seen it? it's the new road.
first time
we were the only car on the road and the tall lamp-posts, equidistant each one
from the next, turned their heads to see us go past
not even
buildings seen, the bushes on the sides seemed to be cleaned of plastic bottles
and other trash to be expected in such a city as this one
at night
the lights were white and pure, only on this road
since it is
new, it is the future we haven't lived yet, the future called progress lived in
the direction of the original west: east to find the indies, steal spice
future
after the eradication of the past, only after this
europe
where it all began. naturally.
19 million
USD was spent. 190,000 times of receiving retirement pay.
you
wouldn't even live that long. 100 USD a month. no one would.
it is
pleasant to go smoothly, a dream really
the lights
turned their heads to see us go smoothly, in their eyes a cold neoliberal
judgement. because we are a country of beggars who consume only what is given
as charity.
meanwhile,
the people protest the increased gas electricity price.
on the
outskirts of the city, going up the hill
i am an amerikan citizen, i don't have time, i
take taxis
on the
sides: barns of dirty white sheep huddled together each smelling the other's
sweat
one goes
smoothly blind, the bumpiness of not seeing is as normal as the shooting of
bullets into border villages at night on your way for bread
in fact,
being in the center, central capital city does not make you safer from the war.
go in the
village an hour away. in the mountains.
you
remember those sounds at night they tell you are fireworks?
they have
numbed you to gun-fire. they tell you they are killing fruit eating birds. and
true, you find them scattered on the side of the road of the village in the
morning,
their eyes
are still open. so duck down, stare into those mirror eyes. you see
the human
form, the face, the eyes, the nose, the mouth, the clay skin, the dark hair
the human
form killed as if it was not, transforms into the expression of the soul, a
bird with a black beak and utterly beautiful
only in
death are you beautiful. city grave-site black hole all things swallowed up.
you are not
a city. you are the memory of a place.
the memory
re-membered from scratch. from pieces of
what was, pieces of what is to have been, what could have been.
is there
room? is there ever room to invent the story?
the method:
look inside my coffee cup.
black and
white.
either or.
1 or 0 or 0
or 1
positive or
negative.
the
capacity of our mind or the mind squeezed into the capacity
a
limitation
a divide
and conquer strategy always needs a dichotomy
split the
main dichotomous idealogy into many dual parts, keep the double arrangement of
things
if we know
we are alive, then we are not dead
vice versa
cut up
reality into parts
rearrange
the parts
make chaos
appear
arranged
Sunday, January 12, 2020
august, 2015
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Will
Monday, November 4, 2019
հատկապես կանայք
Monday, October 28, 2019
ա շուն
Sunday, August 18, 2019
աղոթքաանեծք մարմնիս
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
անուղղելի
ապրելով
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
good daughter
there is shame in this and i am the shame
Friday, September 21, 2018
patriarchy
my sisters will call me to say you are dead
and i will already have been far away -
as far as i could have gone from you
while you still pulled at an invisible cord
tucked under my skin by your hands.
your death would decrease this distance
for which i had fought and won, and i will know
perhaps for the last time
how much power you still hold over me -
a captured fish in a sea of destructive dependency.
and i will shrink into a ball
and i will fall down on my knees
and i will howl holding my belly
where you never lived
and i will say "not yet, not yet,
i am not ready yet".
but what keeps living will not care
nor stop living to bring you back
to give you even a split second of time
to honor any part of you not dead.
and i will gather my things
and come home to watch your resting
eyes, your body prepared to be returned
by the women that loved you
back to the powerful force
that birthed you.
that birthed me
of you.
later i will stand by your grave
after the earth completes you.
i will take off a layer of my own body
that was fed by your fear
of that part of yourself
that is who i am:
reckless
fearless
soft.
i will dig a second grave.
bury the body shocked
by shame.
bid you farewell.
.
Monday, September 10, 2018
what to do with pain
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Որոշ տարիներ կա փախչելու ցանկություն - Քլաուդիա Ռենկին
ով տեսնում է քո մեկնած ձեռքը
այն ինչ, որ քեզ հետ տեղի է ունենում քեզ չի պատկանում,
Գիշերվա հորանջոցը
կլանում է քեզ երբ դու պարկում ես սխալ անկյունով