She tried to kill me with a mooncake mould.
It didn’t work, of course. That’s why I’m able to talk to you. My name’s Eric by the way, and I don’t think I have much longer to live. My head feels like a mosquito bite after you scratched it too many times and the gentle depression [...]
Mooncakes
Gazing out the window
Calle Colón was dark and dead under the moon, except for the trees alongside it that whispered to him, and the air that made him shiver a bit. It could’ve also been excitement that made him shiver, except this was not the first time he was visiting the girl with the uncommon name.
He was walking [...]
Street Beggars
Do you want to go anywhere? Kelvin asked me, holding open Monte Carlos glass doors. It was after dinner and Kelvin, a high school senior and my elder brother by five years, was responsible of taking me home.
Not really, I said. Mom will have a fit if you drag me around Guangzhou at [...]
But it’s true
Don’t run. You can’t hide
Don’t slip ’cause you’ll slide.
Don’t call and don’t write.
I’ll just argue. You’ll fight.
I won’t sink. You can’t swim.
You knock. I barge in.
You blow hot and cold.
You’re young. I’m too old.
It won’t work this way.
I’m night and you’re day.
There’s no me with you.
That’s a lie. But it’s true.
Don’t run. You can’t hide
Don’t [...]
A midnight encounter
At 1:00 a.m., I sat in the basement of 3565 Wideridge Road. The two storey duplex house belonged to Aunt Angie and her husband George. I used their house as a weekend escape from campus life. The basement living room was my main station.
The muted TV threw patterns of colored light across the room that [...]
The Riots
Even the birds sometimes sweat in the heat of northern Nigeria. The soft hum of the air conditioner blends with the sounds of early morning classes. I sit in the third row to the left in classroom JS3A. I am thirteen and in the highest junior high grade. The black cardboard covered bulletin boards have [...]
Love and lasers
You sat discontented—well I know,
As I killed that grunt with an SMG.
And theres no surpassing your eyes glow
So despite the coolness of Halo 3
I wrote this little verse to show
Just how much you mean to me
The way your hair waves in the breeze,
Like a HORNET lowering for a kill
Or bringing a SCARAB to its knees,
Defies [...]
The photograph
When I look at an old photograph,
I see old friends
boasting blue and white robes,
with mortar boards perched upon their heads,
looking into the camera’s conscious eye of the past.
You can hear the voices of congratulations
of parents and teachers,
and the timeless buzzing of the creatures of spring that have awakened
so joyfully,
inviting you into the picture.
And once again,
You [...]
Wanderer
i stand here unsheltered, unprotected.
my only shelter: emotional, courage,
one man facing the immortal unexpected.
a deluge of fog, a rising moss
aimless, irrevocable, and unrestricted
resting under my gaze, embracing
the lonely mountain, the rising hills,
the jagged rocks, still erected
the sky and land meeting in the middle
both connected by gray horizon, respected.
a lone wanderer i stand, watching rocky
fingers reach [...]
In pursuit of bubble tea
My roommate Kimberly and I stand in front of the Bubble Tease shop at Eaton Center, Toronto. A sizable crowd clusters before the cash register, rattling off a list of ingredients. Behind the counter, waitresses glide around each other, filling plastic containers with varicolored liquids.
Okay, youve got to try Bubble Tease, Kim chimes. Its [...]
