Violetta Simatupang Biography

She lives on the same planet as ours
Small, round, full of holes.
Then comes one beautiful day
Something went: stroke!
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Yamuna Vihar was sun-roasted
Smoking roofs and wailing asphalt everywhere
Delhi Pustak Parikrama sobbed on a yellow plank
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Lying in her off-white bed
wherein words left unsaid,
living in several worlds
wherein none is possibly absurd,
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Rosie is Ross.

She is my self-conscious boss. Ambitious. And obvious.
Talking to her at home words get caught in my throat.
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Paradise isle, surrounded by a sea-like marsh
a gliding boat was swallowing
saline and brackish water in turn
roots clasping like gigantic claws
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