I'm sat out the front of a cafe in Hatton Garden. I've just eaten a brie and bacon panini, and I'm rolling a cigarette. Feeling very London. An old man comes up to me and asks for a roll-up. I oblige.

was it worth it

yeah

ion

i don't really want to be associated with that one for some reason

i dont understand magnetisation

like first name

we need to be deconstructing our identities

bro i read nothing in my life

no like which do people call me

or never left

i hadn't considered this pedagogically or as a kind of personal knowledge management system (puke) at all but i suppose it is both of those things

and the fake qualifier

abrar?

is this you as well

barren land

There is a pause. She ashes her cigarette. It falls on me. It seems like the birds have stopped too.


was it worth it

its good

nope. i only remember the leaves bristling behind the window during chemistry class

ahnaf abrar

Thank you, Jack



it holds me to something (you, now). I love editing!

Hours staring at the ceiling, the wall, curling up into a ball. It seems annoyed with the light, it kind of recoils. It will get lighter. I wonder where it goes in the day.


It Will Get Lighter