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Jan 2022 Arif Aditya Abyan Nugroho

Alicia Moore

roses aren’t always red,
violets aren’t actually blue;
we’ve unfortunately been lied to —
the expression isn’t as easy as rhyming ‘I love you.’

#valentines #love #relationship #life #flowers #heart

Jan 2022 Arif Aditya Abyan Nugroho

center of gravity

Jan 2022 Arif Aditya Abyan Nugroho

Seranaea Jones

center of gravity

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all my mistakes in life
add weight to a scale
of self-judgement–

so far i sense
a balance—

yet it feels to me like
i've let so much ballast
get washed overboard...

s jones
2022

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Jan 2022 Arif Aditya Abyan Nugroho

the last time i saw you

Jan 2022 Arif Aditya Abyan Nugroho

charles

the last time i saw you

1) a bookstore in May,

2) your apartment in Maine

3) an airport in spring

4) random chinese food place

5) my apartment (2nd floor)

Jan 2022 Arif Aditya Abyan Nugroho

mistakes happen

Jan 2022 Arif Aditya Abyan Nugroho

max

mistakes happen

we’re kids
we don’t know what
the hell we’re doing
all we know is
it felt good,
then it really
hurt

Jan 2022 Arif Aditya Abyan Nugroho

The fight

Jan 2022 Arif Aditya Abyan Nugroho

Steve Page

The fight

Vulnerable ain't weak
Hurting ain't broken
Pausing isn't giving up
Tired isn’t beaten

Listening to a pod cast about being self employed in lock down

#fight #pain #sick

Jan 2022 Arif Aditya Abyan Nugroho

Walk

Jan 2022 Arif Aditya Abyan Nugroho

Frances Raeburn

Walk

You walk away so
easily
makes me wonder why
you don’t just keep on
walking

Jan 2022 Arif Aditya Abyan Nugroho

Untitled

Jan 2022 Arif Aditya Abyan Nugroho

Eshwara Prasad

Untitled

Life is a never ending stream of placebo dreams.