Conversation

We smile at each other

and I lean back against the wicker couch.

How does it feel to be dead? I say.

You touch my knees with your blue fingers.

And when you open your mouth,

a ball of yellow light falls to the floor

and burns a hole through it.

Don’t tell me, I say. I don’t want to hear.

Did you ever, you start,

wear a certain kind of dress

and just by accident,

so inconsequential you barely notice it,

your fingers graze that dress

and you hear the sound of a knife cutting paper,

you see it too

and you realize how that image

is simply the extension of another image,

that your own life

is a chain of words

that one day will snap.

Words, you say, young girls in a circle, holding hands,

and beginning to rise heavenward

in their confirmation dresses,

like white helium balloons,

the wreathes of flowers on their heads spinning,

and above all that,

that’s where I’m floating,

and that’s what it’s like

only ten times clearer,

ten times more horrible.

Could anyone alive survive it?

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Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Poems in English 

• You are coming! by Preeth Nambiar by Poetry In English
• Wish If You…! by Praveen Parasar by Poetry In English
• When the universe speaks by Preeth Nambiar by Poetry In English
• WATER LILLIES AND ADVICE by PEGGY AYLSWORTH by Poetry In English
• Waking up on a rainy morning by Preeth Nambiar by Poetry In English
• Wake Oslo up again by Philo Ikonya by Poetry In English
• Towards The sky by Pushpendra Singh Baghel by Poetry In English
• To Double Lock by Pierre Reverdy by Poetry In English
• The way aboard by Preeth Nambiar by Poetry In English
• The Theatre of Illusion by Pierre Corneille by Poetry In English
• The Survivor by Primo Levi by Poetry In English
• The Search by Pornika Ganguly by Poetry In English
• The Magic by Preeth Nambiar by Poetry In English
• The Love! by Praveen Parasar by Poetry In English
• The Last Letter by Priyanka Tungana by Poetry In English
• The Fragrance of life by Preeth Nambiar by Poetry In English
• The Deeper Shadow by Pierre Reverdy by Poetry In English
• The Actor by Preeth Nambiar by Poetry In English
• That Light by Paul Hostovsky by Poetry In English
• Termites by Piera Chen by Poetry In English

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

Doska or the Board – write anything

Search engines:

Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.

Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees

Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

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