CIRCUSITCH

Yes it’s true I give up easily. I’m not a fighter, instead I relent. I am quick to resign than to find other alternatives. I go into submission the moment I realize my hopes are so high that it became risky, and dangerous.
I hate disappointments. I hate the fact that they don’t dissipate, that sometimes [...]

That night we started conversing.
The setting: late night swimming into an early morning, me with a rubber band, and him and his pack of smokes. I was humming the Sesame Street theme when he came over. His long legs seemed to stretch way beyond the stairs. I spent most of the time staring [...]

it is late at night
i sigh into my pillow
and you feel
the vibrations
current favorite things, in no particular order: early mornings, late nights, cat hugs, monitor light in a dark room, sidewalks, post-it notes, magnetic poetry, solitude, jacob crackers and a good book, burrowing under the covers, imaginations and cherry lipgloss.

Sometimes I stay a little longer than usual.
My job ends just one hour after he comes in, but because he has such a pull, I don’t go back immediately. I don’t even know what an aura is. Magnetic attraction couldn’t be the reason, since I don’t wear a watch and I could never [...]

my fingers dance across the keys, but i have no idea what they want to say. the light is set down to low, a dim setting. the mood is timid newborn kitten, we haven’t been introduced twang. the wind blows and picks up stray leaves. at times like these, i tend to stretch out my [...]

5 Things In My Bag
1. Cellphone. Zero gave me a new one for graduation. My sister is the coolest.
2. Wallet. It’s pink and a birthday present from Zero. Shit I sound cheap.
3. [...]

I don’t read the newspapers specifically because I believe ignorance is bliss. But since I’m working in a news channel I have no choice but to digest news 24/7. The best part is finding out wacky information before anyone else, but the worst is when I find out things that were the reason why I [...]