
maziart
Maziar Ghaderi is a Toronto-based multimedia designer, educator and director that works with visual media and interactive technology. With a background in multimedia production, his work is situated at the intersection of technology, the experiential and creative direction. / / In past lives, Maziar has filmed obscure shorts in Vancouver, cut limes in Montreal, sold phrasal verbs in Brazil and worn cotton diapers in Tehran. / / http://maziart.ca/
I Wrote It
I poem if I could
I’ll write it
A stone made of wood
I’ll bite it
The highs and lows
Survive on your toes
Means letting go
I know it
Left cold
Let in
Letter by letter
I wrote it
Aug 2, 2020
Aug 2, 2020 at 9:45 PM UTC
When the earth fully opens
Thick air free range loitering
Shades of brown and grey ossilate in the corner of my eye
The ceiling fan above my resting head
Street lights fight the nights sky so we don't have to
As we stay nested in ,
When everything opens
In August
Jul 7, 2020
Jul 7, 2020 at 10:05 PM UTC
I was on the plateau when it happen.
I always hated going under it in the middle of the day. It felt like a mirror; a reflected isomer — too still and too sad to be near. Shadows give that same feeling, but with blurred corners feeling slightly farther away.
I prefer going under the bridge at night. Cooler, like sunglasses that you don’t have to put on. The night as a way of saying, “It’s not up to you what you get to see now. I decide what’s important for you. Which is absolutely nothing”.
May 6, 2019
May 6, 2019 at 1:35 PM UTC
I went back to the places once traveled through years ago
they smiled when they saw me
thats a good start
today i turn 36 years old here
i really just want 36 more
made it past jesus at least
but my father didn’t carpent
but carpets he brought brought on his back
i didn’t do anything really
3rd person story glory glares like novellas
but take it as your own
you’ll blur out your empty spaces
and stick out in just the right way
i answer phones all day so as to not answer my own
i really like want 36 more
ill do better
i promise
May 6, 2019
May 6, 2019 at 1:31 PM UTC
i promise ill betray you
the more you hold on your to assumptions and emotions
the more ill play with you
all those ideas from faceless voices in the maze
you’ve inherited happily
because who has the time to think on their own?
Apr 22, 2019
Apr 22, 2019 at 10:07 AM UTC
a jihadi terror blast
of course it was
to **** their christ
to burn the world
look at the blood
its splatter
but it doesn’t seep
because for them
faith is what matters
history changed his skin
to match their writers’ hue
pink, ginger and blue eyes
he looked more like me
than like you
yet when hell killed his friends
that look like me
all eyes dilate
all kids dead
all skin burned
all blood everywhere
all blood red
a plea for the common
that’s what i said
because man < men
Apr 22, 2019
Apr 22, 2019 at 7:59 AM UTC
waves are like people
no two are alike
yet they all end up doing the same thing
like the one before it
and the one after
at their own pace
they’ll wait
until the perfect time
that one that just feels right
but when it comes
the beach is different
tastes have changed
because the trends have too
Apr 10, 2019
Apr 10, 2019 at 3:25 PM UTC
I don't think people realize how fragile it all is
how it just falls apart when you're looking out of the window at something else
at first you don't realize because it happens bit by bit
you'll get used to it
the culture war looms
it pulls out your skirt on fridays
take me out please
take me where the boys are
you know you want to
it tugs at your sleeves saying
oh you didn't hear what they said about you?
flag wars they sing
truth is a preference
it's true if it feels right
if it doesn't well
it's fake news of course
oh you didn't know non-player character
will you play to win?
because feelings don't care about your facts
you see I was born in 83
in the newly formed islamic republic of iran
three years into the trench warfare that changed the psyche of a nation forever
high on the islamic revolution
full of fury
blood and soil
blood and soil
the hors d'oeuvres of the war
we fled in 88 three months before the war ended
nothing gained nothing fulfilled
I see the absolute worst in people
I watch them and learn much from what they get outraged by and what they don't
it all starts small rooted in a search for meaning a sense of purpose
once this is defined just watch them turn on each other
the other essentially
war needs a dragon
war needs young men to believe
the culture war has always been there
like a monster’s nails casting an ominous shadow
behind the bedroom door tapping away at your mother's vinyl flooring
when people get safe
with fear at bay the tapping dims
but when an immigrant stabs an infidel
or a black man is apparently murdered on video
the tapping gets louder
what is the dream of the foreigner hoping to penetrate the walls of the golden city
to weaken it?
from the russian bot to the isis video slicing brody's neck right before your eyes
it gets at you doesn't it?
doesn't he look like you?
your white knuckles are shaking
yes yes the monster says
I will draw you in
because I'm just a monster living in the hallway
and I'm nothing without you
is what he'll never ever tell you
but it's true
he aims to exaggerate the divisions within your family
to exploit it
to challenge your identity
to play with your emotions
as you've done to them
so you know this game very well
you just don't know the side of the table that will
as in the iran-iraq war both the us and the uk sold arms to both sides
the great game
War is profitable and the opportunity to cash in on it is tempting
people don't have ideas
ideas have people
how fragile at all is
this very society that I cherish that I sought refuge in
my family
the vast base
the stable economy
common law
democracy
if life started in the east
then the reason to be of the west is to carry on the torch
to learn from past mistakes and to be a light unto the world
until our very toes are inching at the pacific with no further to go
will I find myself staring at the window pondering what happened
like so many countless men throughout history have?
how fragile at all this
we won't know until it's taken from us
not by the formless foreigner but by our own very hand that opens the bedroom door
to experience our darkest insides that grows and grows endlessly
until we have nothing else
the monster in the bed now
in all that cold
and all that dark
Feb 14, 2019
Feb 14, 2019 at 11:47 PM UTC
I got alotta things I want to say
so when you got nothing better
than to hear me mumble
the usual suspects,
the whole ensemble
I’ll be the one in leather
the one that was just across the hallway
at that office on main street
you used to temp at, ‘member?
in summer ’06
or was it fall of ’09?
it doesn’t matter
the whole cast is here, yup
each is reborn when i tell a tale of theirs
but only if you insist
that I got alotta things to say
and that i want to.
Feb 11, 2018
Feb 11, 2018 at 12:55 AM UTC
I poem if I could
I’ll write it
A stone made of wood
I’ll bite it
The highs and lows
Survive on your toes
Means letting go
I know it
Left cold
Let in
Letter by letter
I wrote it
Sep 17, 2016
Sep 17, 2016 at 10:08 AM UTC