2023-02-05 21:02:07City life always perform mixes of the have and have nots.Look at those pretty big mansions where behind them are alleys with the narrow slums area and densed ugly houses which look like a row of ugly boxes ,ugly cements and rusty zinc roof and the kids play and yell.....the fact that system and the social condition have never changed. Over there ,huge buildings ,hotels and malls with other construction and skyscrapers.
A figure passing the alley in a hurry.He put on a green cap .Some kids bullied him about his big moustache and big hands.If he reacted to be angry,the kids would laugh and escape .He would chase one of them and scold him ."Good morning Bast" ,an old woman greeted him from an opened window .He just smiled at her and waved his hand then went to the next alley before getting to the main road .He called a taxi heading to a new adress where he got an order to make some reparations on the house .Again he read the adress .Yes ,two more blocks .That was it .It was Zepp old house.Sometimes Bast thought that his job as a construction worker was risky .Not only caused by the fact that it's a rough job but also if the employer was ...just like the person whom he would meet in just a minute ..he heard that Zepp had been in prison ...was he a cruel person still ,after coming home as free man ..?Everyone has little prison eventually.Not only criminals but prisoners of poverty like himself . The evil system that excavate deeper gap among social classes...he didn't want to face a bossy one but with that ...he still able to refrain .Facing an ex prisoner..he walked in doubtfully .Real prison with criminals out there...and symbolic prison at home when people tighten by the tasks and duties .There spaces to bring about the destiny and choices everyone make..he as a coolie and well....the ex prisoner was there .Standing with folded hands on his broad chest.Looking at him with sardonic smile in his mouth .Bast stepped straight away and ready to greet him politely .But he hoped that he could get rid of the thought of his being ex prisoner put him in beetween despair and nervous ness.Zepp was pushing and pulling some mechanic things that scattered around the store room beside the lounge .The old house was foul in overall."Good morning sir ," Bast bent deeply when he greeted him .He saw a cloudy look on the face .That look seem inhumane ." Morning " finally Zepp answered.He shouldn't show such affectation.But he did .Bast felt scared even more .From room to another room , something creepy was there .. hanging on the air ..He cleaned up his shoes first then barefooted walking around all the parts while examining each cracky walls and poles .He looked around.It seemed like a deserted place . Perhaps it's been deserted many many years ago.He held his coat in tightening way to cope the freezing air .He was coughing while looking for a site to sit alone .He looked around again..there he saw a bench ,seemed so dusty but it's the only place to sit before taking out all his tools from the thick bag.There was a dog dashing toward him .He was scared .But the dog barked, nevertheless,its eyes look pitiful but quite friendly .That dog came near him and wagged its tail .Bast caressed it and in a moment they befriended.He enjoyed such moment ..when he heard a voice . His employer.He strangely wanted to run .But he was numbed.He started to gain his normal attitude. Zepp led him to every room needed to be done.Without any words ,he commanded him to do all the repairment.Bast wished he had a partner or two in doing it.. would he be able to tell him so ?Bast only nodded each time Zepp made some gestures to command.Not long after that , he dragged a big wooden box and asked him to give a hand .It's such a hard wood with leaking surface till he hurt his wrist as it scratched his grip .The dog was commanded to stay still while it ate a caned dog food.When Zepp moved to another room,it wanna follow him but it stopped caused by a prevention.The dog just watched him and go with a helpless look .A scar was on that dog body which seemed in healing process.The scars on the dog's body looked like marks of torture by a blunt object as well as sharp objects. There were deep stitches. Bast stared at it for a moment but his mind kept asking why. Has someone ever tortured it , if so then who? Zepp?
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The ..Half Moon
" The first coffee cup was just good but it didn't fresh up my mind as usual. " Get another hot drink .." " I don't think it will work .. there's something hinder inside that can't be dissapeared by anything simple now " The fan was still cooling the room .People seemed all gone ,even there was still a few people in the room.Hell no ! Look at the chirping bird around the trees and glittering drops of water that watering all the plants little garden ...maybe it can heal the unmoveable hints ..Get up , feel the difference..Don't be too hard on yourself..If time can be saved ,in what place you will keep it ? A jar A jug A wooden pipe Bamboo Rusty tin ..What ashamed, time only have one place inside your own..Why human want to have a little piece of the past and another good time in the present and tomorrow,if it still come ? A warm feeling when you're not alone ..None of them unscarred to being left and alone at the time you want to be with someone.Why stories repeated
Why Are You Shrink?
Wild flower among bushes and grasses is like kindness among nastiness.l chant , loneliness is like a cage where a little bird wants to fill a small can by seeds but it never full , leaving it in anxiety.Loneliness as the abandonment of friends ..Smilingly , his father waved , "'Let them go , dear " said he when he saw little Zepp tried to catch some butterflies..,,That's not as easy as we think ..right ? To catch them up?"The boy stubbornly did that .He ran after the red and yellow dragonflies.He wanted to keep some of them in his bedroom.Even the little boy didn't say anything about his dad,there always be things to talk to others none can say that the boy seems to hide something about his dad as he was proud of him, only when ones asked about his mom , they will whispered each other but still heard able ," Shh ..maybe he didn't even have one! " Like the tabloid gossip magazine or tv program show ,even the subject mute ,they can develop gossip still ..it is like that .
Invisible Angels Of God
The time comes for the thing to occur after being cancelled for so long . Whatever, this must happen . Essential dialogue as a human with brain.lf everyone leave you then do it all by yourself. That 's self command .Heart calling .On a fine day a few sight fixed on a figure all in black who was just got off from a bus .Is that him ? Someone thought. The noble man from a bus ...? now he understood ,it was not a public bus , it's a special family bus and a special chafeur walked indifferently.Hollowness more after knowing who were those people.But they remain waiting . willingly grouping them after finishing business." The dialogue won't go anywhere 'he thought,' for the goal " His face was not vivid , almost lifeless when they looked at him from close . What cold eyes and sarcastic expression he had .He started , " If you are not the ones who want me to be here, l would be furious and mock you . Then what will l hear and must l speak ? I detest childish manner in gr
The Desire
The white lonely moon shines among the trees in high above,glaring in serenity with its only one romantic eye .What is she in real ...big stone ball ? Then why the coral stone on earth don't follow her to stay with her in the sky castle ? Is the moon placed as a crowned Queen for the kingdom stones on earth ? " If am the stone , ..." Alsava murmuring, went on by the man on black mantle, " You are the Empress Moon " Alsava mumbled, " No , l am the coral among millions of corrals " The man looked at her with strange but romantic look for a moment then he sighed and looked away .Zepp glared at the stairs which look so high and steep... Newspaper scattered everywhere .The murderer had been discovered. He had a dead wound black owl in his left hand before he fell. Also he wrote a letter, then sent the police officer away, screamed ,"Move away bastards ! Do not handcuff me ! I don't wear a gown ! don't you see ? " How come the police officers then let him go it's out of mind ! It
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Nerida let Samy did his job before break time then he brusquely went back to answer her chat responding a picture he sent , " What's the name and taste of the fruit ? " He answered" Sweet and a bit sour " She could not tell what expression on his face ...happy , angry or fun? Innocent expression must be the one you could expect from a fifteen years old boy who admire her as a mature woman who gave him better treatment than everyone else as an errand boy at Meridian 's cafe .Samy did not have idea what else he could write . He's shy and awkward, worried if he write more it won't be a right thing for him .But he was surprised seeing her more message." Tell me Sam , How do you select friend request on the social media? Me ..you know , well ..None can judge anyone else for good and bad at a short time,but,at least l brows the profile ...if the person clothing properly and facial expression shown there on the account, it is ok.. " Astonishingly , the young boy responded , "No
Maybe Not For Him ..
Went back to the cafeteria open front to the garden yard,after meeting a few colleagues while his wife stayed there.He leant on the parking car , lighted a cigarette,talking through his smoke and heat inside his soul.He bent to whisper ,and make chuckled.Maybe he said something dirty about women ." Before l married" that was the words that slower his chum' s chuckle." That's the way men refresh their mind after the oppressive hard work " " Hard work or not , that's refreshing way for men " Now they burst the louder laughter.Silence is an ocean.Speech is a river.When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river.Listen to the ocean.-Rumi" So you believe in silence" " Ya, and l was too young to react at such group gathering " To be there meant he got risk to be suspended and raising the question of whether he was part of them or just coincidentally there so he could hear things around there .Whether the noble family had to bribe him to make him shut his mo
