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Bogdan Dragos Dec 2019
they all gathered around to hear
the little girl sing
and she seemed so happy
about it
she had to cry first
But they wouldn't dare join her in her
cry and instead cheered and
urged her to carry on

Sing

And she opened her mouth
to sing
but her mouth was wrong
in as far as singing went
broken
askew
defective
And she kept on singing
and they smiled brightly and dared
not flinch as she sprayed their
faces with spit

but eventually her mother started crying
and father embraced mother and
guided her red face against his
chest and started crying as well
and buried his red face in her hair

Our daughter is so talented
Oh God, oh dear God, so talented

And they began to pray
silently
and the aunt prayed she won't have
to name the song the little girl was singing
Oh God...

And the little girl went
pffff pfff brrr wa pfff chhh pff
with her swollen tongue between the
deformed lips
and surveyed the crowd and wondered
why her cousin wasn't present

Well, it was his loss
somehow he always got grounded
before her concertos

What an idiot
Rakib Nov 2018
A traveler named I then arrived,
To where men had always been.
But the end of the day had then been different from all before;
For not a soul of the many that came had then not been present.
For the trail to enlightenment that would then have been begun.
But wait and tell me
Tell me why it doesn’t come
For the only some who was calm
Time flowed down its river an inch or so
From the time that supposed to bring on
That grand majestic vehicle that rains fame
Oh it is called the train, oh train, train, train
And now the train doth not come to this land
Land famed the waste land as Eliot before done
And then in this carnival of rust I saw, I saw
I saw a barn, barn owl as it is called then
Noise that it had made of the screech
A sign that the train was on reach
Oh! Then the train finally came
Rust, blood and sweat made
The train came and stopped slow and low and gates of it were opened
Not a soul inside had travelled back here and I was the only one to go
To the promised land of pigeons as called and so I jumped to it inside
An hour or so had then went by in the darkened place there by my side and it moved, moved, moved
But then again the barn sound heard did I and shh and chhh and bump and beep and a loud THUMP
It stopped, it all stopped and I on the floor and stream of my life from my hand flowed; all stopped
And so I left the damaged train on foot, blood all over my boot, running not to make my body food
I ran, I ran, I ran and ran, time had so followed but slowed until all I could see had been turned to fog
I could see no more and I cried but then in front came a man with lamp; his face hid with mystery so
Asked who he was and said he in triumph ‘Shepherd of fire’ and so was he gone; lamp on me front
I carried the lamp and the fog was gone, path none else but one and I was again on foot and run

— The End —