–Hassanal Abdullah
I too am tired of mere darkness,
embracing the pungent hope
of glamorizing the octopus disease
of my turbulent desire. I too am
a nocturnal beast
searching for the favorite food of my brain
that has been getting hungry
moment by moment like
a rolling rice mill that is always
ready to consume more un-husked rice grain
in the blink of an eye without
hesitating to perform its task.
Surprisingly, it is my passion to be
as greedy as possible,
as if I were a wildcat that snatched
a like chicken from a village cottage,
killed it to eat alone, and
did not like any other cat to sahre
even a little piece of chewed up bone.
Rank and rotten, I am a damned
gout on today’s big toe
that is incurable, getting worse and worse
with the turn of tiresome time,
wrecked by a tropical storm.Jan 27, 2018
