It Will Get Lighter

barren land

ahnaf abrar

...

abrar?

whats your name?

i did until you asked which kind of gave it away

or never left

It Will Get Lighter

feel you

fw

i was tempted to lie about my name

like first name

its good short few pages

we want to live the knowledge too live the content

its performative

have you read

magnetisation basically means the induction of divine form unto you

propensity within someone

not their contents

ahnaf is it worth reading all those books

I'm trying to picture the scene inside, like I was trying to picture the scene in the tree.

i have read not even 1 book

But seriously, thank you, Jack, for telling me that I could submit this to a high-level literary magazine or creative nonfiction outlet with some minor tweaks. I don't think I will do that.

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

you cannot feed someone truth

and the fake qualifier

you cannot feed someone language, they have to speak

in a way what we are really interested in with pedagogy is the magnetisation