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Wish

Close to the new year Nothing but light in the dark Of the wrong winter To enumerate Not the ...

Takamatsu November 2025

Kotone ruffles ahead, the way her stride is a quick step after a slide. I have no idea how much ...

Tokyo October 2025

You think, what, twenty, thirty million and chaos and pollution reigns but the sky is blue, the ...

Maiden to

You think I was prophetic, since pretty much my demented world, a world I imagined writing about...

Death of the Writer

Man with his wheat-colored hair tied up in a ponytail like a housewife entered the large ...

Plan B

Japan again. Japan is everything Iran isn't. Out of the way for one thing. Hard to get to, so ...

Implore In

I asked my friend if he prayed. He said every now and then he does a mental check of his body. Is...

War inferno

My name is Firuz Bahram. A common name in Iran that reminds everyone of Firuz Bahram High School...

La Bête

Those days were long. There were no LCD In hot Darrous. USA was black and white On shiny ...

Hate Speech

Is a place On a mantlepiece. It's too high to reach there When money As plentiful as ...

As In Iran

If you want to know how it happens that one day they open some iron gate and stare in horror at ...

Here Be Dragons

As soon as the king of Middle Earth, Glassy eyed, mere steps to death, Began deriding the lesser...

How To Train A Dragon

Whom are these reels for? The men are monsters, The women found Worse in perfect pods, Fake ...

Le Chat

Over the blackboard The gray and white photo stares All day at the door. The blank ...

Grim No More

We had it once. And thank God we weren't horrible with it. Or if we were it wasn't as bad as the ...

A Man to Pull a Nation

I'm not like them, The cool guys with girls, With their life's work. What I have though Is what ...

For Annak

How many times did I tell you You are about to fall When you hide inside To travel backward in ...

Gonerash

The first burn victim, History, Made the statement That a free man, Optimist by ...

Clipper

I come from far away. I come through the dark. By my instrumentality, By the taming of ...

Something Wicked

I should be more trusting They said too morose so Take one in the morning And one before the ...

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