Three Poems
bà ba
were these my first words or
did I
call out mā ma before anything else
bà ba
I never told you I drank up
bà ba
were these my first words or
did I
call out mā ma before anything else
bà ba
I never told you I drank up
A blur has crept into my thoughts, over the course of time, the words have gone soggy, in-between talks, soaked sponges, filled with my tears, maybe, the words have gone porous, fissured, broken in the face of their expectations, now they drift, onward, outward, I gaze at the water’s edge and diffuse in their attempts, I
can lose myself, to love, to the people, to water, surface, about 100 times, dive in, about 200 times, conceive an idea for a text, watch it, sprawling and sprawling, until it has grown beyond myself like ivy on a grave, and I can no longer write the text, I can: do almost nothing, because I do not know anything, close to nothing, only about jellyfish, they, too, do not have a heart, and about thermal bridges in walls, across a body of water that calls for me, every person would interrupt, me: tell it the right way, start at the beginning,
and I would reply to everyone,
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