Disaffection

Sun quarreled with Earth's atmospheric tears:
Who won? What about Moon and her
balsamic brothel? Where were Stars
when my day was about to squirm and swathe
in incognito malpractice? Sky, so teal
in her devout tenements, itching to steal
my black, black discord — of Love
and whichever comes first
after imagining a life without you,
without the freely-administered drugs
your chocolate jealousy seems to spur —
and addicted, I aim to inject this hurt
into my vertigo fallacy with your last
lonely kiss that tastes like mint shock
My hollowed faith remiss
Wrong is the vaulting doctrine that regulates
your rain: It is not to outmode variant poisons
— we are as human as you
The fruits and wine that we dine
energize emptiness just as your convictions
bring you meaning and marvels
These colors are to compare,
never to make us disappear
Abundance laid on the table —
                        I am complete without you



Thursday, May 31, 2012, 7:00 – 10:37 PM

Stealing arbitrary words from Darren Hayes's song "Black Out the Sun".

Fire-water love

Your Luxury Written

in every of my passage

Today was meant for moribund

prestige for I caught the taste of

proud lemon — its acerbic bite

piercing my retinae like guilt

Today was celebratory revocation

as an escape from your potency,

so I don't come running to you

with phobic obsession like I

always do — today I am

too busy spinning discomfiture,

ebony as I can be, anadyomene

oracle by my side: heavenly

till the hour the water croons,

and all my healthy complacence

becomes a hefty foul thing

No more bad beginnings of

faucets draining doting diaries,

fawning with overestimation

Today I shall snip the trail of

your fishy scent stuttering for

conversation when you don't

deserve any foolish dedication

Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 9:10 PM –

Thursday, May 31, 2012, 6:00 PM

Bipolarity

Some four, some three

Some longing beneath the sea

Everyone knew I would desert you

and I would, oh black-feathered wren

First came happiness, then

came pain, as it would each pause

I took after hollering

your God-forbidden name

Aaaaahhh ———— !

How condescending is this treason

to your anti-gravity reason

Corona artistry eliciting offbeat

delinquency, seamlessly, as a magician

would conjure his rabbit's reproof

Did I not flummox your stormy

stridency — did I not try? Did I?

Much ecstasy gathered around me

when you were gone — it was

as rare as beauty, almost like love

Too arcane to call it betterment

How long will this be? How long

till you come and rescue me?

Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 4:08 – 8:55 PM

Shadow of a Thousand Illusions

Substitutions for happiness
mix some merriment — none ever
leads to you. So much, so much
that I loved, just never enough. Never
the karmic languish you covet, nor
the nightly amazement. I fit
an ill-timed conception: unsought,
fleeting as a fraud. Not enough
to bury all the parochial dispute.
Forgiveness demands a raise —
I have too little gold. Why am I
writing you? You ungrateful beast.

Your bestiality, bucolic
in its ascension, reminding me of
what could truncate my ambience:
I am always a chore, never the joy.
And fast asleep, the eternal verity
that is in your bones grows somber
as a stone — terrorizing my dreams,
its naked legitimacy incoherent.
You made me a ligature of all things
you would not endure — thus
you live inside of me. My hiatus
a hospital for your maladjustment.



Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 6:24 PM –
Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 1:01 AM

Stripped

Freedom is not free. It comes
with a price of a sacrifice,
of feeling infinitely small:
revelation of your ignobility.
Predilection of propaganda,
the arrow of greed, perpetrating
through these webs of deceit,
waging wars which won't end.

Your temper, to each and every one,
equates nothing to their grieving.
You flirt with Death, spurning love
and wanting woe, while they —
not old enough to imbibe life nor to
admit love — are Death's children.
His toll. You mean nothing
in the face of tyranny. Your skulls,
like dirt, are a weight of futility.
Whether you exist or not, you are
nameless. You are target practice.
Men bragging guns as toys,
confounding their territory. Safety,
insanity, or pure money? Humans
tend to pacifism, not conflict
nor chaos. Not this massacre.

You are a cog of their craving.
Not your God, nor your nature,
drives you here. Your sustenance,
jostling for lineage, strips theirs.
Your hands — they are to create,
not crush. Not brutalize. Clemency
for your temerity. We all are
made of light. Flesh and blood
our vessels. Peace our promise.



Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 12:46 – 11:49 PM

House of Spirits

Superstitiously, they charged

the house that I live in: full of vice

Exorcism sent to disinfect

the wrongdoings from the past

Cemetery plot mustn't be bothered

Grandfather remade the place,

block by block — his own sweat

and the feeble sum he earned

An only child, my mother inherited

the state with grateful ease

My parents, paler than Grandfather,

had not been able to outdo, thus

the house matured twice derelict

rousing the neighbors' eerie rumors

One by one, they fled, cursing:

The house offered ill luck to their

plantations and shops — no one

reached our street anymore, not even

the children who used to bruise our door

One summer night, fire raged and ruined

Asleep, we could not sense the burn

All vanished to the ground, but three

We shield this house — us and them

— the invisible honoring our graves

Our spirits soar, rooted to the ground

Friday, April 3, 2009, 10:00 PM –

Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 6:04 PM

If Love Is Red, I Am Color Blind

Being good is not enough. I need luck. Only the lucky find love: a privilege of two.

As I was looking for a yearning video on Youtube, I found this. Darren Hayes's live performance of "I Miss You". What struck me as the most offensive was the scene where he stood right in front of a female fan, holding her hand while singing to her. The envy didn't come from being able to embrace Darren so close, but knowing that I will never have any man who loves me enough to stand like this and intertwines his hand in mine.

And so I cried and cried and cried. Life is not fair for some, even when we have tried every attempt to be fair, or to be virtuous. We are condemned to live in solitary loneliness, forever. No one will be there to console us when things go awry. No one will tell us that every bit will be all right again, that we will always have someone by our side. No one.

When we open the door to our homes, only the sound of solitude greets us. And alone we carry on, pretending that we are strong. All along finding substitutions to happiness in the shadow of a thousand illusions.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 2:57 – 3:17 PM

If love is red, I am color blind is from Savage Garden's song "To the Moon and Back".

Screenshot is from this video.

On Your Deathbed

Your youthful crooked grin

                                  — such juvenilia

Was that all your fearsomeness could cover?

Wild infirmity, breakable as you are,

for I would vandalize those spectacles

and toss them to torment your martyrdom

because furtively you pray for me

By God, how you thirst —

How I chide your covert wantonness

Pretty plaything and one, two, three,

shall we throw ourselves a party? Behind

defiant submissiveness lies the very truth

with tardy strokes from slender fingers

and half a cynical kiss, mine, lingers

Haughty hypocrisy embalming fair

asymmetry when my blossoming bosom

chafes your musky chest, and not

a minute passed, sanguinary suffering

rushing to your carnal core — akin to

prostitutes, you are everyone:

gleaning to reap your intemperance

Monday, May 28, 2012, 7:34 – 10:13 PM

With Every Word

Did you intervene

your deepest sleep so you could see me

gleaming amongst those faintest stars

dripping from the sky? Did you miss me so?

Then, say it — say it like you meant it:

I am a part of you

I am what makes you want to scream

The glottal stop strangling your throat

                    trembling your thoughts

with every word I wrote I beseech you

The stress stitched in your springy strain

— its usage your cultural taboo

We are made to sate each other

to actify the margin of our twin birth

Your unfettered flux broiling my brain

seething seduction in every of its gait

Surrender, I huff, inhaling the mildew

of your softened cheek, pure as milk

Like a deceiver, clinical in her clandestine

confidentiality, my kisses reach yours

Oh, Sylvia —

darling, darling you

Monday, May 28, 2012, 4:57 – 7:03 PM

Fallen

It is too dark for an afternoon

that indicates three. Too dark to see

these theories inside my head,

where everything floats into fluid solidity.

The world falls asleep as her flames

turning frozen, limp as a dead whale.

No sound wherever I seek. No sound

but the wind gently toying with the frond

of such crimson shapelessness. Crucified

perfumery whiffing its last breath, buzzing

in cowardly voltage. I am searching

for something so lucid that cannot be seen —

or felt. Something stemming in the remains

of an abandoned dream. His pragmatism:

a privilege like any other. Oh agony,

were I blest, were I some centimeter of zest!

But no — I won't ever be. All things bind

into a gust of fallen asperity I can never be.

Too trivial to be the subject of one's elegy.

You never want me in this; neither did she

in hers. What good am I? For burying

your faults. For scrubbing little things

and none of it. You can afford a thousand

of my clones. Disown me when

you don't need me. I am a toothbrush.

Tiny and temporary. Replaceable: I am.

Monday, May 14, 2012, 6:53 AM –

Monday, May 28, 2012, 4:20 PM

Feeble Attempts and Creamy Oranges

G'morrow, lords and ladies

Oh, I am but here to please

Afore the glorious Sun rises in the east,

whose wish will I grant, whose lips shall I kiss?

Bathed in the warmth of a creamy tropical afternoon,

let me tell you the greatest love there ever was:

He was perfect as the golden snake in Sicily

and she was the very figment

of her imagination — of pure fiction

She adored him as the night would redirect

into unclarity without the Moon, a little too much

While he — he would utter the shortest I love you

whenever their world broke in two

She loved by and by till one day,

she found out: He betrayed

Mercilessly he stabbed that she failed her sanity

Her sanctity, her all, her clarity meant woe

Without the rite of rationality, she was true evil

                   — and thus she un-loved

Sunday, March 1, 2009, 10:25 PM –

Sunday, May 27, 2012, 10:58 PM

Drugs of Desire

I am asleep, asleep,

cringing under the drugs of desire,

of desire, creeping from hour to hour

Senseless, unconscious of them
                 — their betrayal

Dashing from scene to scene,

Selecting nightmares, dreams, beliefs

Infinite search through Sunday,

Monday, one third of May

in lone periwinkle morn: to forget

in case time stops; stars drop

gone into an undersea voyage

of blue boredom, squinting

for no tomorrow freedom

But drugged as I am, hesitant

as you are, paranormal nausea

logging in with its bric-a-brac

and antiquarian knack

Oh, there shall be no more

of your paramount paramour for

here, it is only dry and my phatic eye

like a camera waiting to wallow

the twist within me whirling

a tasty tornado

Torrid then toppled, the trickster's

quizzical quarks go asunder

See me fail; see me cheat

in an attempt to defeat your beat

Sunday, December 6, 2009 1:47 AM –

Sunday, May 27, 2012, 8:16 PM

Not Much Fun

Showered at two PM. I was afraid that the water would freeze my body again, but it ended fine. Now I feel fitter. Much, much cleaner without the sticky sweat. Headache is almost gone. I hope this continues so I can start writing those second-rate poems immediately. Two poems for today, as I planned.

Now, a minute or two to spoil my blog: vain self-portraits. Who doesn't enjoy posting her own mirror-shots over the net?

Some entries ago, I published that side-angle photo where my breasts looked bigger than reality. I didn't manipulate anything there. But to be fair, to banish all misleading depiction (also to prevent more visitors going to my blog looking for "Indonesian whore"), I present you how I look from the front angle. This one is much more realistic and factual.

Having D cup breasts is definitely delightful. It makes me feel most like a woman in all my life. But I hate how fat I have become in the past four years. With 168 centimeters of height, I currently weigh 104 kilograms. A 36.8 BMI doesn't sound healthy at all. Even when I don't look that obese, I prefer to be a size fourteen (or sixteen at most) and not eighteen. Of course, the disadvantage of shedding weight is losing my precious pornographic breasts. That would rob me of this gorgeous mature sensation.

To illustrate, this is my photo of December 7, 2007, when I was still a vegetarian, weighing around seventy-six to seventy-eight kilos, size fourteen. With this figure, my breasts looked rather flat. Not fun. But, gaining much weight isn't commendable, either. So... I need to get back to size fourteen. It's much more important for me to feel healthy instead of feeling sexy.

How I wish I could slim my upper-arms, waist, and legs while keeping all the fat in my breasts. That would be miraculous.

Sunday, May 27, 2012, 3:30 – 4:41 PM

Lips for Sale

Conclusively sick. Damn virus.

The analgesic seemed to heal me after the first two hours of rest last night. As I woke around midnight, I felt fine. And then, I slept again till seven in the morning. My legs were colder than giant blocks of ice, even when I slept with a cotton blanket. I refused to move or rise since it felt like it would worsen the chill. But I had to.

So, I hastened out of bed to the bathroom, still freezing. Washed my face and brushed my teeth. Had rice breakfast. Brewed warm ginger-honey-tamarind in a bottle. Cleaned my room and changed my dress. Standing up for too long made me nervously queasy, like I was about to vomit. Took another analgesic pill for the headache. Feeling better now that everything is fresh, though the bloody headache still occupies my brain.

Not feeling drowsy, I chose to write. If my parents were home, I could ask them to take me to a doctor, to make sure that this isn't some type of dengue fever or worse, malaria. Dengue fever is common anywhere in Indonesia, and it's only lethal to children whose immunity is weaker than adults'. Malaria normally spreads in areas with dense jungles such as Borneo. But, my American colleague who lived in Jakarta had it in 2009. He was hospitalized for two weeks, lost twenty kilos, and almost died. I loathe mosquitoes. They should be extinct.

I'm thinking about completing more poems today. See if creative writing triumphs over this menial illness. Perhaps, composing under the influence of paracetamol would make my diction sound much interesting. Who knows. If the verses don't work, I'll just go back to diary entries. As long as I attempt to think in unison, I'm sure the headache will disappear. I'm an expert in being alone.

And what if I tell you that my body is succulently sweating under this midday heat? My moistened ginger-honey lips, half-asleep, breathing their virgin seduction. Which man would be heroic enough to kiss me and catch my disease?

Sunday, May 27, 2012, 10:58 – 11:42 AM

House on a hill

All Alone in Space and Time

I am not sick, not sick, not sick, not sick, not sick, not sick, not sick, not sick, not sick, not sick. I shall recite it a thousand times to make it come true.

Without rain, mosquitoes rule the days. I heard from my mother that four of my cousins had some sort of dengue fever recently. My sister and I were also hospitalized because of the same disease in 2003 when I was still in college.

The doctor informed me that I was attacked by a virus, without contracting dengue fever. I hardly believed that. The symptoms were obvious. Three days of deadly fever, where I was almost unconscious except to take my medicine. I couldn't recall anything but my mother bringing me food and sweetened tea and checking my temperature. It was almost as horrid as having a drug overdose.

And that is why I am worried to death about suffering another case of this plague. Even when dengue fever is only fatal to children (it leads to death), I don't want to be sick for a whole week or more.

Too many mosquitoes convene in my room in the past week. I do use two electric mosquito repellents. They scare the pest for a while. It was disconcerting to experience the start of a fever earlier this afternoon. My body shivered and I had a nasty headache. Heat pulsing from within me. I fed myself instant creamy soup and took an analgesic pill. Luckily, the headache is half gone by now, but still exists.

So this is how it feels to be ill and alone. Completely alone with only a stupid Internet radio broadcasting Placebo's "Every You Every Me" and a blank document of illegal Microsoft Word. Mommy's not here. Don't I wish to have a Darren Hayes husband to kiss my forehead and sing me to sleep... Someone write me a love poem or something. Quick!

Saturday, May 26, 2012, 8:12 – 8:50 PM

All alone in space and time is from Placebo's song "Every You Every Me".

Piano fantasy

Of Impure Carbon

Her mists were maroon balloons,

                                some white.

When she saw a father

fitting his oversized coat to his daughter

for it was too cold outside, she took nothing

but alienation. She would never be her.

Two lovers held hands and passed her way;

she turned to count the trees, buildings,

and space, sensing nothing but virulence.

She would never be her. When her mother

fell ill, she would sit in her ward without

the handmade get-well-soon card, without

saying she loved her because everything

she kept inside was a heedful lie, like playing

an old tape she knew by heart. Exaggerating

each line to make them believe. Rehearsing

again and again and again, it came naturally.

Her eyes and ears a constant recorder:

They photocopied the spectacle of emotions

without any immersion in her brain. Arts

and imagery — all an act. Inability to feel

was a fateful virus penetrating her immunity.

The only counterattack her body had was

feverish defense. Gradually mocking till

it was about to spout in streams of tears.

Nothing rose afterwards. Kindling, stifling,

and assuming to understand as she chose

to be a poet, not a lover nor a child.

Her business was melodramatics. Her role

an equable bystander: warily documenting

each gesture of affection without being it.

Saturday, May 26, 2012, 6:00 – 7:12 PM

Dear Nothingness

Sultry, insomniac night

inflammatory as billowing bother

Much how I wish to besot you

the way I allege myself:

without judgment or bureaucracy,

without this clamoring headache

that insists to madden me

We solely exist

to catch each other's shadow

Our minds two virtual prisons

heating and melting illimitable irony

Freedom sounds more like an insult

And when I sleep or unable to,

the hunger enrages of taming you

Taunting your farsightedness

for lacking cunning to see beyond

the basal needs and awfulness

They will never be me, nor

what I allude into your senses

Gather millions of them and our

sacred Hell shan't be resurrected

You can never behold me outside

your dreams: I am your Cinderella

— broken glass my slippers

Thursday, May 17, 2012, 9:41 PM –

Saturday, May 26, 2012, 2:39 PM

Game of Survival

Ten minutes to six: no sun

That idly inglorious star!

Cars racing; people competing

to gather food in a game of survival

Highways flocked by antipathetic

candidates sacrificing ourselves

to rotate a habitable planet

We are the first barrel of wreckage

Ripe almost red —

like Popsicle made of rusty apricots —

the sun rises: half circle growling

into an abstract splash of flames

Fair frosty cumulus the herald of a rite

Columns of pines on dank silent hills

Everything green and geodesic

Rays of light penetrating the earliness

Dry ghostly bamboos, slender,

breezily whispering sorrowful envy

Vehicles queuing on the plank;

children piling on the field

A day has just begun

Disadvantage of ravaging time

What would be worse than this?

Useless — yes, we are dying

We all are going to die, but at least

chance it with adequate zeal

Why won't they listen? Or employ?

Why won't youth cooperate?

Tuesday, May 22, 2012, 6:49 AM –

Saturday, May 26, 2012, 12:49 AM

Bandages

Prosaic in its gloss

with more conceit than craft

I write to divorce the comely Death

These stanzas my bandages —

their ointment like steely string

almost undetectable but always there

stronger and stronger as I retain myself

from the altar of disrepair

Uncompromising swiftness

acclimatizes the ice into my veins

I am unkind:

There is a charge to my giving

In a trice, blessing becomes a game

All things crystallized;

everything dilutes in vain

Ribbony clouds, streaked

with black crows, my heathen heart,

it knows no forgiveness

Crocuses combined,

they make the bed where I divine

Slovenly I shove and on I move

to a realm centralized in discretion

With a stare so bare, they

shoot their blowzy infection

Love gods conspire with each

interaction on a stage

whose only part for me is a beggar,

unfit to show my inauthenticity

Friday, May 25, 2012, 6:22 – 8:55 PM

Dirty Friday

Again: warmth too cocky

to rectify lives into dreams

What is there for us to say

except this blindness?

Gambling a pact with Time,

scouring a slice worth relishing

And you survey this lifelike coma,

a termination, pertly apprehensive:

typographies of movements

and stop-motions depicting

another breadth we cannot touch

Reviving those mornings where

you were majestic enough

to be a part of something

            — human with feelings

They need you not

You are a channel like many others

These people come to claim their rights

for self-assurance, so they can be

a darkened part of something, as if

they were loud enough to be majestic

as you once were: petition of price

If you were of comparable molecules,

you would shine in the interplay,

not alone, never forgotten

Instead, you fill your eyes

with the dance of the unknown

Everything silent

that creates a mood of the living

Friday, May 25, 2012, 3:10 – 4:24 PM

Izraeil

You, love, shall kill me

with your perverted kindness

and willingness. You shall be

my hero, here and afterwards

And I will love you still. Some say

I am obsessed. But little do they

recognize me and what I am

capable of. Perhaps, obsession

is what I want them to see

Perhaps, I lie all the while

People see what they wish to see

Their eyes all clouded in hypocrisy

That shan't make me a liar. Or will it?

Throughout my life — this pintsized,

overrated life — so many guises

stop and go. None is as wicked

as yours. Nor as vain, my dearest

darling love. You and I are democracy

Our republic reigns in computerized

cogency — such one as revamped

invocation predating human nature

Contention of God and His demiurge:

Of which will we one day be?

Sunday, May 13, 2012, 6:31 PM –

Thursday, May 24, 2012, 7:39 PM

Writer's Altiloquence

It began in 1991: a child of eleven

and her writing career, for she made

no friends but her own achromic room

People seemed to irk her too much,

and more if they came in crowds

So she writes and writes and writes

Daily, nightly, hourly: All the time she

was alone, her modest world shut and

she was sound, with her stories —

tragedy and melancholy. True love

that becomes reality when one wishes

with all her might. Words of a little heart,

too timid to be heard, purging like

an inferno of wingless birds. Pageantry

of chrestomathy originating evil —

some hate, some tainted hope. Every line

a little skewed. The artificer at work,

thinking to herself for civilization would

never speak to her: tears clarified

Rubbish projected in three million

multitudes of misanthropy

Lonesome crickets sing with her —

                 disharmony by her side

Sunday, May 13, 2012, 6:40 PM –

Thursday, May 24, 2012, 5:36 PM

Two-Thousand Twelve

Today — what day feels more

like the night before my execution?

Misunderstood Mozart: retold

symphonies to aggress concentration,

accompaniment for novels too thick, too

lengthy to devour some twelve years ago

Resonance better than alternative rock

The deceased of Spoon River vocalized

in loads of ingenuity; Elizabeth's sonnets

with their ancient poetic calamity —

Short verses, still in the process of

five developmental others. Seven days

of clothing — my hands damaging

a washing machine — hung high to dry

Argumentative twins: louder than a riot

Horoscope and Tarot cards prophesying

a soda shower that is most pretentious

than I could ever be — more and more

mannerism since no one spellbinds, not

mysterious enough to cultivate but an

enigmatic self. Its unfaltering coercion:

a demure woman in her early thirties,

farther and farther away from societies

Content dejection is where I belong

Monday, May 21, 2012, 4:12 PM –

Thursday, May 24, 2012, 2:01 PM

Unmagical

My first language is Hate —

never Love. None ever taught me

love or how to love. I know not how.

I profess envy, jealousy, despair —

bitterness, apathy — each

and every form of negativity

this world keenly conjures: wrath

that becomes beauty but ends in

carnage. Life taught me how 

to brandish a knife

to shield my body from pain.

Well-versed in belittlement, in

snobbery. In strutting my demands.

Contemplation of death when nothing

is worth the effort. Nothing: not the

didactic God too busy preaching

and forgets to imagine. A family

too absorbed in its way of seeing.

Nothing makes any difference as

Godless, loveless, and luckless I sing.

I was born into a tiny chaos.

Negligence raised me.

This is the Universe I know: fragility,

where people deify what they desire.

Self-proclaimed friends

working twenty-four hours for Life

but too busy for me. Relationships

synonymous to vacuity. Everything

leads to estrangement. Promises

uttered for convenience,

                 never sincerity.

Sunday, May 20, 2012, 5:38 PM –

Thursday, May 24, 2012, 10:38 AM

That Girl

How does it feel to be adored? Wanted, needed, loved, and appreciated. How does it feel when someone misses you every minute of every day? How does it feel to have someone by your side? How does it feel when someone pledges to spend his lifetime with you? What about when someone wants to talk to you all the time because it feels rapturous just to talk to you? How does it feel to be cherished because you are who you are?

When I majored in English literature, I was intoxicated with studying. All I wanted was education. The highest there is: post-doctoral research in creative writing. I did try, three times, and none of them worked. But then, it hit me. It hit me a thousand times. When I went to and from work, when I woke, when I had nothing else to do but to feel miserable all day. I doubt that schooling will change who I am two years from now, or five, or eight. The pain will still survive. Wanting what I can never have. To be that girl.

No one would spend hours on a plane flying from one continent to another for he wanted to meet me. Not even from state to state. No one would be hysterical if I did not talk with him in one day. No one would cry because I stopped talking to him. No one wanted me so much that he could not sleep thinking about me.

No one would love me because I am unworthy of love. I am not beautiful enough or thin enough or cheerful enough or lustful enough or herbivorous enough. I am always wrong. Incomplete. I don't have what it takes to be loved. I don't have love in me.

There were times when I contemplated what went wrong. Would I feel better if I had the need to depend on someone else? That would make me feel weakest. And I hate feeling vulnerable. I need strength more than anything. I need independence. If I am to be most truthful, I will say I don't need anyone. I will cry alone. When I cry, it will be violence, not sorrow. I will write. And I'll be fine. I don't need anyone to make me whole.

One thing I won't ever do is to beg for love. Articles cited that women who appeared desperate for help (the archetypal damsel-in-distress) would be more attractive to men — simply because men had the need to feel like a savior (the knight). Seriously? I'm not omniscient. But I don't need help from anyone, either. I'll always figure things out on my own. If I ask someone for help, it will be a disguise to talk to him. That's me: nothing but deceit.

Still, when I cried, there was a tiny part of me wishing to be that girl. The girl who deserves to be loved just because she is everything she is. To have someone who would give up everything just to be with me, even if it were only for a day. Just one day.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 7:49 – 9:18 PM
The hanged man

Ginger Honey

The point of this post is to show that it has no point. Except, to expose my clothed breasts, obviously. And, to prove that I look fatter from side angle. It seems to me that this is my best pose since it enhances my breast size to double D (instead of mere D) and it slightly slims down my butt (or, I just don't have that much of butt in reality). I do have another picture of this series taken from the front angle, and I didn't appear as curvaceous there: flatter breasts and smaller figure.

What am I doing? This isn't Okcupid... What the Hell. No one reads junk poetry, anyway. Everyone only wants to see pictures of breasts. There's no point in trying so hard to write so much every day. As much as there's no point in living this cursed so-called life.

I need to upload a most sluttish photo along with a most sluttish prose to foil my Internet representation. The start of my cyberslut career. Apparently, drinking fusion of ginger-honey-tamarind doesn't ease my overwhelming pain after teaching 150 devilish seventh-graders. My bones breaking; my brain bursting; my tummy twisting. Get me out of here —

Tuesday, May 22, 2012, 8:04 – 8:24 PM

Alienation of Affections

Have you ever wanted to die?

I want to die so much that I don't care about anything anymore. My mind and body are tired of life, but they won't give up. I want to give up. I want this to end. I don't feel anything anymore. No desires, no wishes, no emotional ties. I have never felt loved nor needed nor wanted nor liked nor appreciated. If I die, no one will notice anything. I don't make an effort to be known or remembered or important. I don't need all that. The only thing that activates me is hunger, thirst, and tiredness. Like an animal. I don't need to talk to anyone. I don't need anyone. I don't want people to pity me. I am only looking for someone to murder me. Are you kind enough to be the one?

I will pay for your travel expenses to and from Jakarta. You will have to kill me in an instant. Just like that. No questions asked. Like when you buy a bottle of water. Quick and simple. I'll give you the rest of my savings. It's not much, but it's still money. Do whatever you want with my body and my money. You won't feel guilty because killing me will be kindness. It will end my suffering.

This is not a joke. I am serious. You can contact me from this email. And I won't change my mind. I have been looking for a way to die for so long and I have decided that the easiest will be to hire someone to do it for me. Suicide is poetic, but too dramatic. If someone else does it, the plan won't look so climactic; it will simply be a business deal. Don't you want to help me?

Tuesday, May 22, 2012, 6:17 – 6:44 PM

I Have Lost All the Love

       that I savored to save you —

I have lost all amorous nectar

that used to adorn your grandeur.

Gone is beloved blithesomeness

where I woke to greet you. I cannot

spell your influence. Conception of

your prerogative becomes irrelevance,

paltry as commuting through dust

from light to light. No more inducement,

no enjoyment. Blinded by cancerous

starvation, I pledge to libel every part

of you. Every inch you endeavor

shall squander. There shall be less

and less of you and so much more of me.

Regaining the selfish macabre autonomy:

a truer self. I waste no time to hate.

All I aim is beautification of simplicity,

like inhaling faint citrus freshness

in Vivaldi's nocturnal spleen.

Monday, May 21, 2012, 2:51 – 7:28 PM

I Cannot Decide

whether to fight or to fumble

in this questionable morning where

the weathercock sings. Water springs

like swatches of a sorceress's dream —

arsenic, violet, burgundy, to amber —

their magnanimous composite knelling

a grotesque sound. Oh chemist, you are

perfect for my emotionally-detached

surreal imagining. The emptiness

in your empathy makes a penitentiary

of vernal blessing. My antihero. Wait.

Wait graciously. Come the time I shall

breach your unsung diplomacy:

that chivalrous disinclination you

consecrate as you age. Like a vocation

(occasionally ambition), your digitized

inscription never fails to encumber me

with an encyclopedia of disease.

Monday, May 21, 2012, 9:19 AM – 2:31 PM

Morning Dream

Her body bare under his

experimental passion lending

aggressive eccentricity reminding

her of flickering volts of electricity

Shy neon light turns away

from this morning where they lay

skin on hungry skin, moistened

with captivity turned indulgence

Demands met: his diurnal fantasy

etching her pulse in administrative

force where graces frantically

repose — their sulfurous tides

tawny like moldy mahogany

Maddening lips bestow

one-thousand kisses that plant

nothing but infertile insolence

She lusts for more of his creed

Each nerve transmitting decadent

delight like a fountain of starlight

waltzing into her, scenic and

all the while skeptical

Her receptive gaze coils as he

crops the conceit in her crevice

— this strange untenable man

Monday, May 21, 2012, 7:50 – 9:00 AM

Discovery

Blue-eyed lark, have you found

the poet whose romantic collection

you lost? May Edna replace your

treasured John. How you intended

to study poetry for its pompous effect

of linguistic rejuvenation. I hope such

aspiration still governs your decision.

I feel you in the falling rain on the rooftop,

softly muttering your gravity. Dewdrops

opine your European patois. Another play

resolves. Days suck me in a whirlpool of

memories — sometimes I long to weep

with them, to hold you here with me.

Emerging in a world where you are able

to look into my eyes without blinking.

But I know you: I have to be older, to 

stop all the unwarranted dramatization 

that complicates so. And you were right.

With you, I became atrocity. Not knowing

South from hereafter. I wish to be free.

To undo the annotated sentimentalism

I somehow attract. It is always inconvenient

where I stand. Be it alone or with everyone.

You want me to live a better choice.

Thus, I cut all ties to imaginary intricacy:

I am done being a child.

Sunday, May 20, 2012, 4:54 – 11:12 PM

Indifference Rises

These lads, raw with insecurity,

see the message only their desires

search to see. Their fame. Their game.

Solitariness that extracts prominence

in a fragile association. Dot to dot.

Linking yesterday's element with its

unseen future. Many good things

they wish for me — universal things

far from my prerequisite. They possess

all: complete in their countless flaws.

And I am not one to spare unsolicited

incentive. One poison remains true:

I pray for their prudence. Precaution

shedding their callow layers into

experience that speaks of affection.

Let them find the meaning of self.

Let them be better than who I am:

one that dignifies some and forgets

others. Let them exert fairness and

exactness in all names. Let grief

slither into their dreams and

wake them with edified tears.

Sunday, May 20, 2012, 5:01 – 9:10 PM