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A Colloquial Story

When the berry does not belong to us, the juice tends to taste sweeter. Trauma bonded and hard wired, we search for love in the most daring of places and we pound our stamp to declare it ours, no postal code ncessary.  Our territory, marked with a ragged flag, that refuses to sway even in the roughest wind. On top of that, the flag is red but blind we are and blind we persist, for red flags seem to feed that hunger and make us oblivious to danger. When Poseidon sees the way we gush and flow, water spilling at every caress, and the games the one we claim plays with his slithering tongue, yes! Even the God of water snarls profusely, demanding our dams to close.  No shame because the people man sweet, honey- like too......... yet, preposterous because the lingering aftertaste is bitterness. Yet, we crave it, get high on it, stay addicted to it, at this point, damn near needing a purge. Then there's something about being hidden in the backseat that makes us ooze, or the way we rel...

The Mango Remains Uneaten

I placed a lush, plump mango on my kitchen table at the start of the year. I promised to eat that mango as soon as I got the clothes out of the washer. I got the clothes out of the washer but then I remembered that I had not swept the floor. So, I passed by the mango in agony while its tantalizing scent shadowed me with its mocking trail. Gosh, I just knew I would enjoy the mango. As I finished the second chore and made my way back hastily to the table to the mango that was as big as me, I happened to catch some spider webs dangling so rudely from the ceiling's corners, and of course, since they had overstayed their welcome, I had to kick them out. Damn, I thought, if only I could eat the mango.  January turned to March and the mundane encapsulation of life still had me in a chokehold and guess what,  I still had not touched the mango. It was more rosy than ever before, more alluring...... gargantuan. It seemed that as the tasks piled higher and became almost unbreable in magn...