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anushka_adishka_diaries's review against another edition
5.0
“Time typically disappears as one walks over the threshold.”
lifeinpoetry's review
4.0
I’m a fair-minded person.
I’ll give you more than half the air in the room
so long as you see me for what I am.
(from “Amina”)
I should tell my father
the only man who shattered me
with desire looked just like him.
I should tell my friends
how many photos I have of myself,
each representing the real me,
which I’ll send to them one by one.
I should tell my lover,
Be grateful for my infidelities.
Without them I wouldn’t
have stuck around long enough
to discover the open window in your laugh.
(from “Self-exposure”)
What you’ve learned here is no different from what you learned there:
—read for your passport away from reality
—hide anxiety with vulgar language
—banish weakness by growing your nails
—cure insomnia by smoking always and tidying your drawers sometimes
—use three different brands of eyedrops to clear your vision, then enjoy your blindness (even better is the moment when your eyelids close over the burn)
Here as well as there
life seems to exist only to be watched from afar.
(from “Why did she come?”)
I’ll give you more than half the air in the room
so long as you see me for what I am.
(from “Amina”)
I should tell my father
the only man who shattered me
with desire looked just like him.
I should tell my friends
how many photos I have of myself,
each representing the real me,
which I’ll send to them one by one.
I should tell my lover,
Be grateful for my infidelities.
Without them I wouldn’t
have stuck around long enough
to discover the open window in your laugh.
(from “Self-exposure”)
What you’ve learned here is no different from what you learned there:
—read for your passport away from reality
—hide anxiety with vulgar language
—banish weakness by growing your nails
—cure insomnia by smoking always and tidying your drawers sometimes
—use three different brands of eyedrops to clear your vision, then enjoy your blindness (even better is the moment when your eyelids close over the burn)
Here as well as there
life seems to exist only to be watched from afar.
(from “Why did she come?”)
aquaviolin07's review against another edition
dark
emotional
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
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