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Lilou

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Lilou

27
Writings
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Limit

Lilou

1 min read

Get up and do it

Or rest one more minute

There is no limit

To how lazy I can be...

Poetry

2
Survive

Lilou

1 min read

Dropping away

My betters

Stronger

Faster

Better

I thought

Gone now

Only me

Just stay in it

That’s all

And I am...

Poetry

1
1
Nostalgia

Lilou

1 min read

Beach visits energize

Realign

Soothe

But also a sadness

The memory

When we were young

And went every day

With no toys...

Poetry

Thaw

Lilou

1 min read

Fire stamped out

But deep in me

An ember burning

I can’t see

Now it’s growing

Warming me

Ready to light

A power in me...

Poetry

1
Mi Amorcita

Lilou

1 min read

We all pile into the uber, and it’s a small car, so I sit in the front. The driver smiles and says hi, but his gps instructions are all in Spanish. He doesn’t say another word. We’re all talking, trying to agree on dinner plans. The driver’s phone rings and I see on his nav screen the caller is “mi amorcita”. He gets a little smile but he doesn’t answer it. Then he drops us off at the hotel ...

2
Friendship Tanka

Lilou

1 min read

Oh what a surprise,

To see you after so long!

How are you what’s new

Slip back in like a old shoe

I’m real me when I’m with you...

Poetry

1
Piano Genius

Lilou

1 min read

He drooled when he played piano. He would get so wrapped up in playing that his mouth would hang open. He knew this happened and made no effort to stop it. He was self-consciously proud of it, thinking it was a kind of utter sublimation into the music, a sign of musical genius.


He wasn’t a genius, and he wasn’t very good. At age fourteen, he be in this state while practicing Faber’s piano b...

New Beginning Haïku

Lilou

1 min read

Last night arguing

Maybe you are not all wrong

Waking up this morning...

Poetry

1
Birthday Trip

Lilou

1 min read

Thirteen now

For just two days

On a trip

Where Mommy pays

Looking cool

The latest craze

Shop for clothes

See matinees

Soup dumplings

And hip cafes

iPhone time

In hotel stays

Heading home

Lavished in praise...

Poetry

Freedom

Lilou

1 min read

Get out the way

Ima do it myself

I work for my pay

I save for my wealth

I hang with my squad

I answer only to God...