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  Dec 2015 touka
tamia
Kisses between conversations,
Red roses and dark chocolate,
Beautiful gowns and flashing lights,
Fierce, wild, reckless love,
This was their life.

Residing in the sleepless city,
Showered with money, fame, and splendour:
The golden boy and the magical girl.
They had it all, they did,
Youth and life to them was forever.

Yet on one silent morning
As the sun rose,
They staggered home, slightly drunk,
Coming from some grand party in Long Island.

They look outside to the sea of buildings.
She pointed out the newspaper vendor below,
He pointed out the lady sweeping the street,
They watched a little happy family stroll along the sidewalk.

Then together, they asked themselves silently:
*What now?
  Dec 2015 touka
Got Guanxi
I don't want to live for ever,
Never,
To clever for that.

I don't want to work for the man,
never,
Signed up for that,

I don't want no steady life
Never,
Endeavoured for that.

I don't want to find treasure,
Never,
Got enough of that.

I don't want to look better,
Never,
Too weathered for that.

And I don't want to go sleep tonight,
Never
No, too leathered for that

X
few shandys x
touka Dec 2015
secondhand

it smokes,

unashamed

floors settle

and i shake

heart pounds,

and voices quake

gilding, mildewing

american dream

small girl's neuroses

and bent family
i can hear them.
touka Nov 2015
feel a woman, ate up
by sea

all the color
in her face

bled into ocean
free

swimming
untraced

pink
for rosy cheeks

and lilac
for painted nails

and her husband, raising sails
while she shrieked

how she shrieked
for shoreline
how she screamed
for his eye

"look at me."
i'm the ghost in the back of your head.
touka Nov 2015
post meridiem,
sleep

schemata dream

and
ante meridiem

public transit
seethes

''de anima"
but
on soul
you do not have

psychotic

numbers
in everything

you are not living,

thing.
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