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Luck

Pissed drunk. Can’t even see. But my luck is strong. Away from here, last one in the queue, I waited for you. It’s always when

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Adolescent dream

Anytime but now. Anywhere but here. Give me the red soaked floor of the coloseum. A night at the palace with a drunk Baudelaire. A

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Fright

During a bumpy ride I took the chance of holding your hand in mine. It was cold and white, and only trembled as you looked

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Haft Shin

My new year shall begin with everything sweet: Shekar, symbol of power and wealth, Sharab, to celebrate this wonderful year, Sharbat, for our youth and

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The firefly

Omid joined the crowd. A firefly followed through the iron gate and into the night. He wondered aloud, what he did by himself, inside his

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My Valentine

I have waited for you, and I will patiently wait much longer. There are signs by which I will instantly recognize you, even though our

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What changed

Never did I think that with a single call this paradise of mine would so utterly sink. I tried and failed holding the handle, watching

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Perseus Rex

As I daydreamed in class I often wondered about the face hung over the blackboard above Ferdowsi’s famous rhyme on wisdom being power. But power

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Setting up the board

“Dear shadow, you have keen eyes. You looked while I ran, tell me what you’ve seen.” “I’ve seen our path cut through a crowd’s agitation.

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Gold

Gold is so soft. As soft and as cold as your unblemished skin, as thin as your hair. Gold is heavy. Surprised you when you

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Ballerina

For whom do you wake up to stretch your aches on the creaking floor? And late at night, after the exhausting routine, who reaches out

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Nightmare number 2

I was driving south through the sandstorm, very tired I should add, when the car in front slowed down in an empty lot. Its driver

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Smitten

You might think I’ve gone mad. You would be of course right. What she did to me in those three flashbacks altered forever my world.

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False prophet

He said the blacks would win the war but would be unable to rule. He said to go and do as you were told. He

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Invisible

For weeks I walk the streets of this pretty town by the sea while overhead, white among gray, annoyed seagulls tirelessly shriek their disapprovement of

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Dream number one

Contrary to the general malaise last night, on my ornate roof, I fell asleep looking out to the smog that hides this monster that eats

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The dream

As you know, I love to write little poems for this and that. I had this song in my head from a Norwegian band called

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Man in the mirror

“That man staring back through my spiked bathroom mirror is an impostor. Dark, almost shining skin ought to be porcelain to match my decor. The

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Anxious

I am, like most of you holding my breath, hopeful that enough might be just for once enough. But I was born scared of bullets,

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Homeland security

R. Bolano rightly writes that a father is a landscape you do your best to avoid all of your adult life. You see him eat

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The interrogation

“I had forgotten, pumping my iron, then falling asleep, unwell and dirty, the latticework of reality zooming  into  focus from far to the close. Shall

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A little more

He strained to hear, yes, a female voice, repeating “Djinni Djinn Djinn! Come through the howlin’ wind! Come to your purple kin!” It sounded like

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Death and…

Every year at tax time we necessarily fight. “Why is this paper missing from its file?” “If you did the filing you’d know yourself!” The

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To my beloved America

It’s been a while since your beliefs are gone, since this apathy made you spend your way to your last home, a refugee, now in

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