Flashback: December 28, 1998

it is another day with
a wrong script have
i given in to
a wrong syntactic tactic:
a deliciously self-conscious
parodic exercise
in theoretical, discursive
meta-language with all its
shallowness.
otherwise
i would have said
`i love you madly'
if no-one ever said it
if no-one ever said that it was said
if no-one ever said that it was said was said
ad infinitum...
and all i needed was someone
who would smile devilishly
when i said
`i love you madly'
realizing it was said
and even the fact that
it was said was said
yet would smile even more
to let me know she knew
that it was said
and even the fact that
it was said was said
and would quote another line
from these cheesy romance novels
to keep the ball rolling...

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

I have been to the
geographical center of my soul

its streets twist and turn
just like any good story should
just wide enough for one or two
narrative at a time
jam packed with history:
the personal kind
under every cobble stone

come to think of it
every history is personal isn't?

worst place to be if
one has spent a whole lifetime
to get away from oneself

kinda futile
one might say