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  • A Bench and a Three Stripes Shoes
    Posted at Park Bench Society - “and by the way, I’m Shai…Shai Bastara” I introduce myself. “Merci, I’m Patna Jane” she said as she took the coffee and shakes my hand. “Cool initial…PJ. Can I call you PJ ?” I said grinning. “PJ it is…and you’re Shai, right ?” she grins back at me. “Sometimes in some situation but right now I’m not shy with you” I winked as I sip my coffee...
  • A Cup of Coffee and Sex, Please ?
    Posted at Park Bench Society - Interesting as it is about the history and heritage of coffee I do wonder now if the term “let’s go have coffee” should have a sexual implication attached to it?...
  • A Love Letter
    Posted at Park Bench Society / original post titled Surat Cinta - “You will receive the most beautifully written letter that you ever read” That is what you told me when you said good bye. I was not really listening to you...
  • Elang dan Anjing
    Posted at Park Bench Society - Berdebar jantungku begitu melihat ikon kuning muncul di sebelah kanan bawah layar monitor ku untuk kemudian hilang kembali ke balik taskbar. Sebuah ikon kecil yang menandakan kehadiran satu sosok virtual. Gokil, 5 tahun dan setiap kali ikon itu muncul masih berdebar seperti ini. Dahsyat !...
  • Mutiara Hitam
    Posted at Park Bench Society - Dia masih dalam pelukanku ketika suara motor meraung perlahan berganti menjadi …… bunyi lonceng gereja di salah satu sudut Kota Tua (Old City) di Yerusalem. Suara lonceng itu mengiringi langkah seorang pendeta muda dengan jubah hitam panjang yang berjalan cepat kearah Via Dolorosa...
  • Putri Duta Besar
    Hidungku mencium aroma jeruk nipis yang telah disemprot kedalam rumah oyster itu dan tatapan mataku berpindah-pindah secara bergantian dari rumah kerang ke cincin batu alam Aquatis besar berwarna ungu yang melingkar di jari tengahnya dan terakit dalam cincin dengan ukiran perak Bali yang indah...
  • Silent Graffiti
    Posted at Park Bench Society - Who does ?.. It's the fucking author.. Where's that bottle of ink ?.. Let me pour it all into a bowl.. Full of alphabet cereal.. And I'll take it.. As my fucking breakfast...
  • The Birth of Park Bench Society
    Posted at Park Bench Society at Blogspot - In the mean time, a few tables from us there is a good looking woman in red turtleneck sweater sitting by herself with a cup of something in front of her. She seems to use the Starbucks' chair as her own private bench...
  • The Re-Make of Pillow Talk
    Posted at Park Bench Society - SCENE 1 (A view from a window. Wet roof in a rainy afternoon. Drops of water falling from the edge of the roof into a man-made pond below. Koi fishes swim beneath the surface...)
  • Tragedi Cumi Hitam
    Posted at Park Bench Society - "Ya yang waras ngalah lah" ucapnya sambil mengaduk - aduk garpunya kedalam sepiring gado-gado. Sementara itu jari tangannya satu lagi menari-nari diatas touch pad di Power Book Mac G4 nya untuk memamerkan layout print ad yang baru dibuatnya ke teman disebelahnya...

Ouch !

Ouchmost often sleepless
when reality fled
the hidden beauty in sadness
is the "missing you" unsaid

damn the plaster
it's only first aid
i'll make it all better
without the bandage

Image: Ouch! tin can plaster. Available at Aksara Book Store. Product by Worldwide Co.

Paradox in a Bottle

One end to another extreme 
Deciding what is best in between
Without getting caught in the mainstream
For I want still to retain the paradox twin

Face

Forgive my sins
From what the heart brings
The truest feelings
Of my secret longings

Silent Graffiti

One or two
Numbers don't tell stories

A or B
Alphabets don't make up stories

Who does ?
It's the fucking author

Where's that bottle of ink ?
Let me pour it all into a bowl
Full of alphabet cereal
And I'll take it
As my fucking breakfast

I won't write nomore
Instead, whisper silent prayers
To embrace me in my fucking sleep

When morning comes
Using water from last night rain
Rested on leaves of an ivy plant
As transparent ink

Pissing at the fucking world
I write silent graffiti
On the neighbor's wall

Two Hands in a Cookie Jar

Two little kids
A boy and a girl
Walk hand in hand

Two little hands
Inside a cookie jar
Performing innocent crime

Share the walk
Share the cookies
Share the moment

Cookies in hand
They run in a park
Laughing and eating

Till one of them fell
Half eaten cookie on the ground
And a broken skin on his knee

As his laughter stop
The other watched
Cookie still in her hand

Unsure of what to do
She comes slowly closer
And sit next to him

Teardrops on his cheeks
Signaling the pain he is in
Wishing it to go away

Still unsure of what to do
But knowing that he is in pain
She offers her cookie to him

He smiles but shake his head
Just knowing that she knows
Is half the remedy to ease the pain