Category: Wonderings
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Bento Zen
Bento is my very favourite Japanese tradition. What could be more delightful than sending your children off to school knowing that their little faces will light up when they see the surprises in their lunch boxes? This doesn’t just go for children either. Japanese women do the same for husbands, and one New York lawyer…
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Commutation
Train in darkness Before even the birds can be bothered Suffocating in the sticky, heavy pull of sleep Too tired to struggle against it Waking with a heart slamming jolt At every misty station More grey faced cattle for the load
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Tick Tock Tick Tock
That twisted clock is still puddled at my feet, reaching its grasping hands out to me. Ticking like a chuckling bomb, laughter all over its greasy face. It’s always against me. chasing me with clanging peals of malevolent memory. Faster, quicker, RUN. Can’t beat it, can’t cheat it. No quickstep on Earth can outsmart the…
