Bebo

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	pacific haikus ~ excerpts
	Remind me of the time :when We were young And I will show you how much alofa hurts. __ As shadows dance ripples Across your dark skin Tight lips in anger That I tear with my desire To kiss you. To reach your tongue. __ Death, the messanger seems to know me better that I know my self And I die a million deaths each day through loving you __ I wonder, If we knew then What we know now Would we have loved so ardently? __ Tangaloa was God Pilli was a lizard Scared shitless was the woman who gave birth to the lizard child so she beat it to death Still wrapped in her blood. They said it had a tail and webbed green feet __ the umu was so hot my face was flushed or was that because I saw you looking? __ when we were children we visited mama but we never got off the bus at her house. Her big knee-length-panties were always on the clothes line. __ Salevao is a red dog that follows me To ensure my safety. I watch him watching me and change the cd in my discman __ sometimes you gotta make waves to make a difference small ripples don’t count you've gotta throw big stones to make a big splash! __ solving my I-dent- ti-t cry -sez is not easy. I would like to get my malu done in Henna. And eat surruah with palusami, dripping with coconut cream. It is easier to love a man. __ the earth is covered in grogmud puddles soft and squishy: beauty is a lighter shade of gray today and asians who bleach their hair look like aliens __ Today, the sun is my lover. Warming my bones from within, Tempting the shadows into corners And I languish in its kisses like a man In a desert who has just found a well __ deep rich voices echo like a touch rumbling on a tabla playing by dia light on diwali and your smile. __ I am so sick of the political crisis That I just want to drop a bomb on government house sink nukulau and tell all politicians to fuck themselves. if life were only that simple __ there is no silence between us: If there was, there would be hope. There are in fact too many words. That is the problem. __ I fall asleep dreaming of you and awaken With your name still on my lips. They are moist remembering. __ they said uncle had come home with the dead water-baby in his suit case. At night we all heard the wailing. After a month he died. They found the bones of the child buried under his fale __ the coconut trees line the shore calling me back home to a land I have never known. Isn't that strange? __ My parents buried my umbilical cord under a coconut tree The tree died. __ I keep my daughter's cords in my jewellery box. I am not sure what I am waiting for. One day I will return it to them when they are older and have no need for me. __ Tell me again of love. Of life in another time: when children respected their elders and everything was free. __ lava is the honey that flows from your lips when you speak. __ the clouds spin around me circling me in a frenzy that is both frightening and erotic. I long for you. __ our eyes meet for a long silent moment before I fall asleep to dream of the kiss that never happened. __ i. S:ticks. ii. An-(d st: ones iii. May break! my b~ones iv. But if you (. taLk v. Ab^.out me vi. I'll rip. vii. Y(our) viii. Ton|gue. Out! fro~m ix. Be t. we: ~en y:+ou® L-egg:'s! __ ~ sadness is the rain fall:ing Crash:ing on the red earth ?There is no black in the rain|bow /But all shadows are. (c) CFKOYA/August 29, 2001
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