RAFFI ROBERT KIUREGHIAN
you can't live in the night sky
your heart is an oversized transformer
he made an attempt to call you.
he left a voicemail.
he said, "this is the power rangers. please call me."
your obsession with transparent asian muji pens is distracting.
it makes him feel inferior.
"i am inferior to your muji pens," he thinks.
your face makes him feel uncomfortable, and he doubts his words.
he checks the thesaurus for a better word.
the synonyms to "love" are, among other words, "affectionate, amative,
amorous, smitten, erotic."
he looks at erotic and thinks "nice."
you got mad at him for not talking enough.
you wanted to understand him better.
you said "i want to know you how am i
supposed to know if you just sit there looking out the window."
he said "im sorry." and then drank some of his tea.
you got up from your chair and walked out.
he went to barnes and noble.
he looked at books and felt inferior again.
the books were muji pens and the words he wrote were cheap bic pens.
he got depressed and went to the "comic books" section.
he read batman and x-men.
he thought powerful thoughts.
you sent him a text message and he looked at it.
"come back pls i love u im in coffee bean."
he felt powerful and confused.
//
Raffi Robert Kiureghian is a young writer from California. He likes
all fruits equally, but tends to lean towards watermelon as his
favorite. You are not his friend, probably.
