thursday night

Sometimes it is good to get drunk. You get to revel in the drunken camaraderie of your drunken friends, your drunken boss does not yell at you, and your drunken and handsome male coworkers have a legitimate reason to rub your hair and plant a full lipped kiss on your cheek.
Let me tell you that [...]

some like it differently

i gave him a song
he said thank you kindly
and then gave it to someone else
i gave him a smile
he treasured it for half a minute
then bent to collect from the rest
i gave him a verse
he wrote a poem of yore
and won a prize to hang on his wall
i gave him my back
he painted a picture
and [...]

Office talk

-Look at that – I say to my coworker – What do you think?
- Wow – she squeals – where is that? It is gorgeous.
It is a place where i was once as a teen, a magical part of the world with blue green sea and impossible sun shine. It is a little corner that [...]

Moment

frequently

rivulets of thought, bearers of pain,
pain of no essence, absurd wishes
wishes with sugar for a sweet tooth
of a tooth fairy with broken wings
wings that ache instead of flying high
high up where my eyes can’t see
the unsightly truth that we once were
werewolves blinded by the moon
moon howlers but with no hair
hairs are not in style [...]

Eyes on the butt

I am turning into my grandmother. That is whenever adoring eyes and cooing voices enfold our little precious bundle, there goes the little old lady inside of me screeching “Eyes on the butt! Eyes on the butt!” I have twice threatened to poke holes in my brother-in-law’s shoes, and I had my sister whip out [...]

this cooks my goose

any time any place anywhere. there is simply no other way to recite this poem. i tried for many years and in front of a lot of mirrors, but i can’t do it.
ah the times when watching a film actually made me cry, made me feel patriotic, made me feel like going out there and [...]

Brief discussion

Would you go to Europe for sex? – the man in front of me asks, and then, because of my puzzled expression, amends it to – I mean not only for sex, but well, you know, for relations.
Would I? I sit for a while and think on it. The truth of the matter is that [...]

Invitation

come inside for there is still pain left
and sadness brewing by the fire
hot piercing heartache and cooling resentment
all waiting
let go of the sunshine outside
darkness is what you know and fear
ah close your eyes at the cutting threshold
smell that hurt and feel that sorrow
you are here
So enter, friend, and share with me
my crown of thorns and [...]

New Albanian Hope

I chanced to meet Miss Kosova, Marigona Dragusha, and Miss Albania, Hasna Xhukici last night. It was great. Both girls were gorgeous, especially Miss Kosova, which reminded me a lot of Audrey Hepburn. Tall, thin and very elegant, she looked like a doll and moved like a mannequin. She was sweet and well behaved and [...]