Chance encounter
Novelty gone
I sometimes don’t know who I am
But I don’t think
That those who have a secure life
Necessarily know better
Things are now more muddled in my head
Just like this murky green, gray water
In this calm harbor
Two meters ahead of me
Reflections on the water surface
Floating boats
Seagulls squeaking about nothing
An arbitrary church, standalone and tiny in the distance
Just a light green dome with a shiny golden tip
My red bicycle standing next to me, waiting, like a loyal horse
Quiet, Noiseless even when it moves
Like a glider
Only the sound of wind against the motion
Behind me
A runner just zoomed one way
Another, another way
I only heard their running steps
While I sit still
And write
And think
Think about what?
Has a lot of time really passed by?
So many years?
Is that possible
If only I can communicate with this curious-looking seagull
Walking by me
Graffiti on the bench I sit on
“M loves M”
Cigarette butts
Nice weather
I thought I knew something about this place
I thought I knew something about myself in this place
Insecurity means adventure, yes
Seagull just took a white shit
While it crossed in front of me
Life is a distraction
Train behind me breaks, it is nearing the station
Another bicycle whizzed by behind
I never turn around to see, I just hear
Mosquitoes are merciless now
Can they really love me so much?
That they try to creep from under my shirt
And suck my blood
Even risking their lives doing it?
What true passion
My nose is blocked
So that if you didn’t see me
If you just heard me
Or saw me from the back
Sitting alone on this bench
Facing the murky water
With my back to the path
And heard my watery nose draws
You may think I am crying
The best crying is the senseless one
Now it’s the tiny birds hopping by
Their chants come in groups sometimes
I often want to smile at strangers but can’t
I am too quiet
I have nothing to say
Life has taught me nothing
And I cannot change when I want to
Only when it wants to
And it doesn’t want to be tampered with
Something else is in control
I often long for cooperation from my own
Self versus self
I marvel at the extremities of my behavior
All my past girlfriends
No names mentioned
Silly huh
Guilt, agony, pain, fun, adventure, emptiness
Meaning and no meaning
Don’t trust a woman’s tears, Dostoevsky once said.
And can I trust my own feeling?
Ridicule is the best answer
And its sister satire
Are you a skeptic? A cynic?
About the big things, complex things, yes
But not about the little things
The little things are pure and uncorrupt and bring joy
Like the girl who just smiled at me
Like the little birds