In keeping with Squeeze the Avocado’s recent 500 word prompt…

When I was younger, I think I took the most generally shared opinion on fashion, that generally shared opinion being that the majority of it is completely ridiculous and it is almost exclusively for the mega-rich.

I did not grow…

I have been taking pictures for quite a while now — I’ve taken it more seriously since ending up in Photography class for lack of choice when choosing my further study options in 2015.

The class was (extremely) relaxed, with one of my classmates literally never taking a picture but…

A poem

The streets

Stay ghostly and silent

No cars, no personal presence

And still I stay invisible

My person only punctuated

By a peppering of white ticks.

A camera flash will sell me out

So I taped the shutter down.

I cannot breathe.

My robotic lungs pulsate

Taking pure…

On the transitory Ye album, Jesus is King, its position in his discography, its musical excellence and its importance.

‘I’m ahead of my time, sometimes years out,
So the powers that be won’t let me get my ideas out.’

— Kanye West on Gone, from his record Late Registration (2005)

…

A poem.

I’m sinking again.

The flood appeared

To have finally cleared

But the water has come
And wrapped its arms around my toes again.

Its tone is darker than before,

Its coldness chills the bones,

I was flying, floating, untethered and above,

But now I’m below even the ground…

A poem.

The exhausting consistency of adulthood

I take no time off, I simply can’t afford to

I live in waking nightmares,

And miss out sleep to make dreams come true.

I’ve been

Feeling like this life of mine is empty. I walk to the sea,

I spend hours between…

How is it that a director as powerful as M. Night Shyamalan, who receives large budgets to play with and started off with what is seen as his debut, The Sixth Sense (he made two films prior, but they were so little known that no one even noticed, I guess)…

A poem.

I claim they’re variations on a theme

But to the majority

They’re just pictures

On a screen.

I’ve defined my dreams so that by night they don’t absorb me.

I’ve refined my means so by day they don’t exhaust me.

A hot body lies below on the frozen…