(from "the red rooms")
in front of my house,
there is a street lined with red rooms
out there are the prurient
with lewd hearts
devils are ceaselessly thrashing within them,
mistaking sordid selfishness for wisdom.
(from "Inside of the Lush Forest") you were just lying in there as a body you were just lying in there with silent breaths you were just lying in there with silent breaths, trembling with fear from a sign of someone you were just lying in there with silent breaths, being disgusted with the world and melting into the earth you were just lying in there with silent breaths, taking a peaceful nap you just arbitrarily lied down in there and rolled around, crushing all kinds of wild flowers you just arbitrarily lied down in there and were bitten by bees, a grasshopper and a mantis and cried like a kid you just arbitrarily lied down in there and were bitten by a snake and dying in vain you just arbitrarily lied down in there and were sleeping peacefully until the middle of the night.
(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 "The Age of Peace")
As they pulled out her elbow,
indulgence flared up with heat
As the roar died down,
fear seeped into the void
Above it stretched humility with shallow roots
As they broke his knee,
arrogance was sucked
deep into the ground with pus
As the fury subsided,
shame crept into the void
Below it grew a leech as tenacious as tar,
gripping the earth with
a heavy and heavy
and obsessive hold
The suspicious limp swaying of the arms,
the pathetic dawdling of the legs,
no longer carried the plague
The world still looked strange,
but at last it was at peace.
(from "One Late Spring Afternoon")
A smell of grilled fish
A scent of approaching summer mixed with dirt
A tiny fly hanging on the inside of a screen door
An empty screen door, a little later when I look back at
Silly lyrics of a popular song
A flow of lethargy instead of vitality
One late spring afternoon that makes everything feel meaningful
(from "The Faithful Heart") Couldn't get closer to anything with staying still, so I got scared when I saw a bad poetry. At the heads of fools, gonna gather bones of peaches and throw'em, and then giggle and laugh for you sons of bitches.
(from "An Artist")
An artist is not who's beautiful.
An artist is who makes a mess.
I have a poor mind and always struggled with grasping causality.
Instead of writing, made a mess.
Instead of an artist, became a pathetic fool.
(from "a candlelight") there's a candlelight in my heart that always precariously flickers with their own eyes with their own blue lines it's a meaningless world for truth say their own eyes, say their own blue lines, but my candlelight would never flicker like this ravingly if they're right
(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 "it was an act of death")
I was in the house
I stayed there
embracing death wasn't only beautiful
'cause it was so hot and my
whole body was shaking
everything suddenly became strange
something was rotting in the stomach
into the mouth
something kept flowing
it was an act of death
death, covered with foolish vice
that was firmly clutching a miserable-shaped apple
I was death
life no longer existed