5 images of contentment

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties

____Chopin








water fills the room, nikola tamindzic

____1.
the math and physics club
prepares you for just about any calculation
__(except not needing one.)


____2.
i feel soo far from you.all.everything
(a distance not measured in times or lengths)
(a slowly blurring dream, coming apart at the edges)
(slowly losing weight like a punctured tire
__or the elderly skin of a deflating balloon)

"i can turn right or left, makes no difference"

____(he smiles)
i feel soo free.


____3.
the air abuts my skin perfectly, a perfect join
(i can't tell one from the other)
and my internal movements flutter away
like aquatic bubbles,
and i can't speak, and would rather not anyway:
i am soo close to the moon, one quick move
and it'll spring away.


____4.
besides me a couple gropes for something to talk about.
opposite, a table full of too-attractive young girls scheming.
(a father and daughter walk past, the father gesturing wildly
with the hand not in hers) (they almost bump into a bevy
of tourists too interested in uninteresting things).
an odd family of alone-mother and children, all with a
characteristic swollen noise, sit and people watch, while drinking
identical slushies. they stare at me sitting
by myself. uncoupled. unfriended. unfamilied.
and i delight in my hour of wordless solace.


____5.
later later, right now think about this:



____(ah, so refreshing)