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taghul
02/28/11*
(one of those few songs closest to my soul)
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There can be a lot of
complaints she wants to hear from him
like the chaos and death in Libya, the second-hand pain that every person
gets because life, can be sad like that – it can be more unhealthy for the
heart like second-hand smoke for the lungs.
She can swear about the opposing principles she shares with her mother:
salary versus honorarium
stability versus passion
rich husband versus same wavelength
everyone is practical, be one versus build your own life, who cares
but he reminds her of so many good honest things
that her right breast is bigger than the left –
when touched gently and touched
in the dark. That his legs are like reminders of trembling trees:
they are like people, it’s just that they have a different way of departing.
The dogs were barking, everyone’s asleep
there’s a pubescent looking at media-warped meaning of beautiful and
of hot and of making love,
there’s a lonely sea out there, somewhere, sweeping the stars,
there’s an old man writing a new song about
his younger days, during summers, during his circumcision
in a far-flung barrio which made him felt like home, like no other.
there is a 7-year old boy who dreams of Japanese eyes, who loves
multiple choice types of quizzes only.
The dogs are barking.
She has raging hormones.
He has longing.
She has wits.
He has sunsets.

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