A poem
in the clogged wash tap root to the base of its shoot like an upward growing yew little breadcrumbs at my feet those kids leave...
“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust,
embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on,
the fewer are those around to challenge our account,
to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have
told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.”
The sense of an ending, Julian Barnes
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malavikameh
- 6 days ago
- 4 min
Family and Toothpaste.
Song to Song has the sneaky little line by Fassbender which goes "do you like kids" and Natalie Portman replies "It wouldn't be a great...
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malavikameh
- Jul 30
- 2 min
A poem.
How to bring up a child in our country. I am going to tell my children that rails are an ankle sock that you tried on your left foot- it...
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malavikameh
- Jul 27
- 4 min
A little bit of SRK.
Hi everyone, how have you been, it has been some time isn't it? I haven't been feeling very well recently, and it was so bad, as I...
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malavikameh
- Jul 14
- 4 min
Fear and trembling, Kierkegaard.
"There was one who was great by reason of his power, and one who was great by reason of his wisdom, and one who was great by reason of...
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malavikameh
- Jul 11
- 5 min
Death among other things.
Drowsing and starving my ass into the night, I search all over my place to eat something. My tummy hurts and the walls of my stomach are...
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malavikameh
- Jun 25
- 3 min
A drab story.
My mom cooks the best food, I miss home because of the taste and the spices and her exquisite dishes. She cooks the best biriyani, the...
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malavikameh
- Jun 23
- 9 min
Diary entry of a 20 year old.
9-06-2018 From today on, I am going to collect some cards. 12-06-2018 And with them to hold several other people; with them, several...
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malavikameh
- Jun 19
- 6 min
I wrote something deep, or I imagine I did.
Why is it not possible that one human can't help another. According to the older myths, we tend to gel with people who are exactly like...
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malavikameh
- Jun 16
- 2 min
Three propositions and conclusion.
An adjective, we learn, is an attribute of the noun. The attributive adjectives (omitting the determiners, that, this etc.) follow a...
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malavikameh
- Jun 15
- 4 min
Hindutva and Derek Walcott
I slept the whole day, and my mother's message "Call now", was delivered to me in the morning. I woke up and rubbed my eyes. I need to...
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malavikameh
- Jun 12
- 3 min
A COMIC AND A TOUR GUIDE
1 2 3 1.1.Like Dostoyevsky, I was not born, I fell from the skies. Rushdie, Rushdie, Rushdie, huh there you go yikes! All...
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malavikameh
- Jun 7
- 5 min
Franz Kafka. TFU!
First of all, what is that face? The Greeks had the custom; to spit on the face of their loved ones, to ward off evils. Oh, that face!...
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malavikameh
- Jun 3
- 5 min
Istanbul.
THE OPEN SEA Yehya Kemal Beyati As I passed my childhood in Balkan towns, I felt At every instant, a tongue of flame-like longing. With...
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malavikameh
- May 27
- 5 min
On First Love.
After my repeated attempts at failing to write a decent essay (how am I going to learn this) and remarkably stumbling over it, as if an...
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malavikameh
- May 22
- 2 min
Death of Marat. A study.
Played with death, played with words, I have come to Marat 21st Century, this, is a big century, A little girl runs in Picasso's I have...
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malavikameh
- May 20
- 3 min
Baldwin is Baldwin as Baldwin is
A room full of racist people is a room full of racist people Keep a lot of Baldwin with you, Baldwin standing, Baldwin speaking. Baldwin,...
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malavikameh
- May 16
- 3 min
THE BETTER LINGUIST
She kept telling me that she was dying, her hands hanging down the deathbed. Each sentence is a word, one licks and keeps each word as if...
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malavikameh
- May 11
- 4 min
A thin layer of covering.
And with the kind of courage you have I don't think you will be doing this anytime soon, says he. That's a giant point to make, I have a...
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malavikameh
- May 9
- 5 min
My Dilemma for D
Foreword Who writes a foreword for a short fiction, or even a flash fiction, or is this a prose poem, call it whatever you like, but in...
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