A Toast To New Acquaintances by jerzkong, literature
Literature
A Toast To New Acquaintances
Good evening madam,
is this seat here taken?
Would you mind if I- no,
I insist- buy a drink
to calm your slight worries
and persuade you you're safe?
(smiles forlornly)
Please don't mind the manner
of my conduct of speech.
I find you flower-like,
if you don't mind frankness.
(God, what am I doing)
Sorry, what's your question?
(listens intently)
My speech is black and white,
precisely arrayed and
organized into troops,
troops of suicidal
phrases which, certainly,
lead me to eat my hat.
(winces quietly)
Stammer? Not I, not much,
I just like tasting sounds.
Drinking is preferable
to pushing air at you
with vulgar lip m
Today I saw a man
suddenly stop outside my window
and cry
and wrap both arms around himself
and sink to the ground
winded
like a tense coil
ready to hurl
obscenities at the sun
before straightening
shaky
hands bruising his cheeks
clearing the uncertainties, blurry images
from eyes
"Look ahead"
and running
nose dripping,
he sighed profoundly
stumbling
to walk
I watch him
continue on
with life
as if nothing had happened
to him.
Current Residence: Muscat, Oman Favourite genre of music: RnB, Rap, Rock Favourite photographer: Jingyi and Elisha!! MP3 player of choice: CreativeZen MicroPhoto
This is my first journal entry and since Jingyi and Elisha are the only people I know on this thing it's probably them who will be the only people who read this, if either do ;). This is just to get across what kind of person I just happen to be.
Other than the stuff shown on my profile, I have to say that I LOVE music which you probably know if you visited my page. Life right now is... very static. Just the beginning of a one week holiday and nothing big has happened. School for me is one of those things which is interesting at the moment but once that moment passes then it just drags along.
I called this entry what I did because lately I'
Don't worry about it, I know what you mean when you're talking about lacking free time. And I was just stating the obvious, you're pics look really good