<Revised version of 'One Day in the Life of a Politician'.> The results of the general elections had been announced. He had won. Now he was here, with his regular escort of fifteen government cars, returning home after the press conference. As he watched the lights of the city night crawl by outside his window, …
Category: My Literary Column
Destiny
Perhaps I have travelled here The entire length of the hall From genesis to this moment here To see a writing on a wall I know not what has driven me so Nobody is aware I know not who has lain the paths Lying unseen everywhere Perhaps the writer of that wall Was …
Swirl
I swirl I flow among these bodies of the so-called truth. I push some, I sink some and raise others. And the people Readjust And the bodies, their bodies of truth Turn paramount once again. I hold I hold up these people and their masses of reality I warm them, assure them To nestle …
Zemlya, again.
I woke up dazed on the highway. It was dead in the night and my head was reeling. The neon and sodium dots traced hazy patterns across my vision as I teetered forward. Each step on the dark asphalt was a painful shot, setting my head the right side up with violent jerks. Some distance …
The Relic I Will Be
At the heart of everything is that I don't know exactly what, or why I bother to speak And I feel no urge to change the topic now You will never know who I was, nor do I want that fact to spread When you lift this out of the dark mouth of this dreamy …