Moch Aldy MA
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Eight Poems of Love
Forthright If you tell me to write a book about why I love you, then it's about 1002 pages with 1000 blank pages. Opened with a foreword saying that I don't know why, somehow, the goddamn language had managed to escape from my head. Ended with a bibliography of honesty about how I will never be able to write a book like this—unable.
By Moch Aldy MA3 years ago in Poets
Do You Want to be Born?
Do You Want to be Born? The first thing any parent needs to do—on earth—is to apologize to their child. Why? Because they had given birth to him or her without ever asking: “Do you want to be born? Are you sure you want to be born in this bastard world? A world you would hate, even if you were born out of so-called lovemaking—which in the end will always bring out the ironic side of every parent’s dream.”
By Moch Aldy MA4 years ago in Poets
Königsberg: The Remaining Remnants (1946)
Near the ruins of an opera house around the city of Königsberg, which has been renamed Kaliningrad—I found two bottles of drink and a drunk. The drunk appeared to be of semi-orthodox descent. He wore old clothes, unfortunately the bottles of the drink I longed for were empty.
By Moch Aldy MA4 years ago in Fiction
Verba Volant, Scripta Manent
Sounds fly with the wind, writings are buried with dreams. The world goes by so fast, but the speed of sound can never beat the speed of light. Once again, light fell upon us, hitting the subdued darkness at five o'clock in the morning.
By Moch Aldy MA4 years ago in Poets
Le Mythe d'Icare (Myth of Icarus)
/1/ The Pantheon was in ruins, much like contemporary Greece hit by inflation. But I will tell you again, about Ancient Greece: Homer; Diogenes of Synope; Thales of Miletus; Xenophanes of Colophon; Alcmaeon of Croton; Zeno of Elea; Tyrtaeus of Sparta; Archilochos of Paros; Solon from Athens.
By Moch Aldy MA4 years ago in Poets
