MOYURIE SOM
Do Not Enter (A tribute to my room, which is unimaginably messy but very dear to me) Books barbed hooks worn-out dolls with hair frizzled out from lack of touch, clothes new and old hanging loosely off a mix of arms too fat and thighs which don’t fit anymore; bowls of half-eaten breakfast (a victim of the rush-hour), jades and lipstick reds and rings and necklaces, earrings nestled carefully in porcelain cups, cobwebbed memories framed on walls, gathering dust from lack of use and don’t forget the cigarettes and unpaid debts, rows of souvenirs from secret dates, pillows stained with covert encounters with Jack and Johnnie, hanging posters yellowed by teenage prophecies, and silks and crepes and papers crinkled with stories lost in failed relationships, alarm clocks on tables, tangled in cables, old records wrapped with with affection in quiet corners, and unopened drawers of forgotten secrets, whispering prayers from nights spent sleepless, old journals that speak of love forbidden and perfumes arranged in rows but carefully hidden, and a door that unlocks this cautiously guarded territory, it’s all so real and fake and fast and furious, a land out of reach of the ever mundane and the never curious. |
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