(from "The Beggar and the Virtue") They handed coins to the beggar.
They greeted him friendly and smiled.
As the beggar smiled together,
they turned away, went elsewhere.
They visited the virtue who was sick.
They gave the virtue words of consolation.
They were truly heartbroken, wanted to add good faith.
The virtue made a confession of his own life
and they also spoke of their own virtue.
The virtue thanked them.
The beggar didn't understand their virtue,
so he cut off his tongue, threw it at them.
The beggar felt a sense of loss, but they showed disgust.
The beggar couldn’t see the virtue’s face.
(from "An Intruder")
but it is the process that leads the direction of the result
the choice of words cannot tell everything and the delusion
that you're holding something in your hands makes you most vulgar.
(from "Ignorance of a Butterfly")
And ignorance has the mouth that never gets tired nor rests.
Only ignorance is busy with its mouth.
Ah,
my ignorance do pick on me, do ridicule me.
(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 "A Writer and a Lighter") I wanted to set fire to his eyebrows.
But he doesn't have any.
I didn't want any other hairs on his body.
So I threw away my lighter.
Instead, decided to be a writer.
I wanted to set fire to his mind at least.
(from "on the settled life") sitting against a little light in the dark struck across a flash of strange feeling with a sinking heart, I turned my face and there, behind the empty space, remained only the familiar scenery if a stranger was standing there, the sin of unnaturalness would run rampant through the body weakness, ignorance, cowardly hope, cowardly belief, unlike all of those that stays in only slight desires, the sin of unnaturalness would run rampant
(from "Moths") rainy late night, a bright glass door of the mall, the place of ghostly large, achromatic colored moths they always whisper under their breaths you beware of those who crush the eyes that are awake at night
(from "My Longest Fear")
There were petals on the road
There were fallen leaves also
Stepping on them
I kept walking
Sometimes in the rain
Sometimes in the snow
I kept walking
One day
I turned around
There was nothing
I might keep walking
Again, turned my head around
And everything was a muddy mess
My longest fear is
The brightest light for me
The deepest darkness in me
So I walked again
But couldn't move on
(from "When Spring Came, the Teacup Broke")
When spring came,
the teacup broke
Tears welled up
in the wind
The wind blew
and silence fell
And the world is always
a bright day
without
shadows
Blind faith
blights us
so the face disapproved
of my death
In my last moments,
the back gradually became distant
The face
wasn't seen
The other
face was also
When spring came,
the teacup broke
Silence, wind, solitude,
nothing allowed.
(from "Blue Blood") I loathe people who raise their voice only when they're in the crowds. They have the red blood, which simmers only in the dark. And you have to face them almost every night, unless you have the sufficient territory. In front of your tiny tight place, they resonate with the vulgarity and cruelty of life, always spitting their red blood. It's like a real hell, honestly.
(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