Chat Book Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Chat book

We met at my start,
To him, days were final.

Studied film, writing,
The same waited for me.

For the last semester
Had written, prepared
A chat-book of poems.

Was detailed, explained
The fight of his parents.

He smashed a pizza
In face of his father…

Curious, I asked him:
'Will you say what happened? '

"My mother had affair
With the next door neighbor,
Was not right, I accept,
So, dad could divorce her,
But he beat, insulted,
Right where we, children,
Stood and observed them! "

Then went on with tears,
His cheeks under shower,
Made floods of mountains.

"My life is strange,
Mom followed her affair,
We, kids live with father! "

He got the best grade
For poem, well-written.

I have kept that booklet
To think of the gone days,
And tropes, genres learned.