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[kohaku]

Okay, I calmed down. Which means, I don't want to break stuff anymore.

I had homemade Mexican food tonight. Mmm, tasty. I can cook! Go me!

sminky is leaving for uni tomorrow. I'm hoping she's having a great time there. Don't worry, hon, I'm coming over to visit you!

I just got realised that I got brilliant feedback for my poems and since I'm such a feedback whore, I'm posting some more!

It's from my Scottish Summer collection. Hope they ring true.



Revealed

I swear I didn't look on purpose
A young man
Jumping over one of the wooden rails
On George Square
One hand gripped tight
His legs flying
An adidas sports short
Under his kilt.


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Untitled I

I've never seen a cooler thing
Than a bagpiper
Wearing sunglasses.
Glasgow piping championships.


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Untitled II

A German couple
Asks me where the best shopping mile is.
I direct them to
Buchanan Street
Sauchiehall
Queen Street.
In English.
Incognito.


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Glasgow University

Drinking ice-cold coke
From a real styrofoam cup
My nail carving spirals into it.
A finger dipped into a coolness
That melts on my tongue.
Glasgow discovered summer this year
Leaving me to sweat
And hide in museums.

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Royal Mile

The Royal Mile is home
To the most common.
Stretching from Castle to Holyroot

Shops in Tartan
Wool Mills

All the cliches live here, door to door.
There might be a museum somewhere
But we have forgotten where it is.
The crooked streets devour things unlooked-for.
History, like the cobblestones,
Vanishes when dreaded on by several million feet.

See ye Jimmy hats
And Hong Kong Tartan.

I retreat to Arthur's seat.
The tourists are there too.
But the view is prettier.