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everyday words, thoughts, and actions are used to hurt others, rarely to heal, yet, with these merciless maladies I remain perpetually in awe, I am flawless is the most indulgent flaw ...

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I have the face of somebody else, their words script my looks, who I am hides behind the sham  ...  the searchlight reduces to a torch, to a fading candle, to a feeble incense stick, it's a dark world overexposed, the one inside, that which could reinstate the strength lies unexplored ... I don't know why I named these as facing the light, can anyone help in understanding the logic, it's ridiculous, but, wait a ...

A mass shooting at an American High School… ...

KABOOM! ...

Earning one's corn ...

The contagion that killed the fisherman’s wife -  (this is my translation from the Arabic of AMM’s poem published 2018, and which forms part of a bigger narrative work looking at transference of guilt and sin, and our relationship to death.) ...

I am a man of simple tastes; I am easily satisfied with the best ...

a long weekend in Clonakilty and a bunch of lilies rekindles memories and fosters love ...

the world an empty mirror troubled images reflect, masked with colourful words, outstanding life doesn't have the face to look up to it, as a helpless habit, being there, hanging around, cracking sound blurred light, broken air ...

The head and the horn, the rose and the thorn, disparate as day and night for the herd flocking  on the safe side; it's unable to connect the two and unite, to catch the unicorn, with coke and popcorn is beyond the scope of the throng.  ...

Masks ...

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