Recollections of 8/8 and 9/8
by fathina diyanissa
4/
I wonder if this very corner
was reserved for people who
did not smear blood on their lips.
I thought baring was not a sin;
5/
I have to remember how my name sounds
in unfamiliar mumbles.
Perhaps I'd have caught it spoken
any other time (if any);
6/
There is something fascinating about
wall-facing seating,
no faces and sceneries, colours
intrusive.
I heard the colour orange is best-suited
for dining;
7/
Detours are tolerable when walking
is the last thing you do while you're walking.
I'd never trust maps though, nor will I ever trust
things that turn miles into mere inches;
8/
People make acquaintances
and I don't,
this time not for the usual reason, though;
9/
The better way
to make people leave, instead of burning flames,
they say,
is to leave them cold,
I thought cold would be something I'd withstand,
but they were shutting the wi-fi instead;
10/
This is the way of telling a long story:
split
into
chapters
*End of chapter 10*;
11/
A zoophilic, a pyromaniac, a masochist, a necrophiliac
and a sadist walk into a bar--
conversation and witty punchline ensue,
I wonder if a group of people telling stories and jokes on
disturbing and weird fetishism are
fetishes themselves;
12/
Serenades and midnight-sharp surprises
were not something to swoon over,
Yet another reason to never be a heartthrob;
1/
I had peed three times
in the last hour alone,
I had had so many things going over my head;
2/
With a voice like yours,
don't ever say, "thank you,
hope we'll see you again."
With a voice like mine, I reckon
it'd be okay, though.