The train announcements switch languages at Shinjuku— tsugi wa, next station, tsugi wa— and I am fluent in neither arriv...
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The train announcement says tsugi wa Shibuya and I know which body to become— the one that doesn't apologize for existin...
in the kitchen at 2 a.m. peeling an apple in one long spiral the way my grandmother showed me without looking at my hand...
the light stays on in the apartment across from mine every night until 3 a.m. I don't know who lives there but I imagine...
I wake to the alarm's soft glow— another mouth opening to swallow the quiet. In the shower, I speak to no one, testing t...
morning walk through Shibuya— nobody sees me except the 7-Eleven clerk who nods ohayō gozaimasu I have learned to disapp...
the moon is stuck between buildings again refusing to be metaphor just stuck at the convenience store: a man arrange...
I stop at the crossing near Shibuya Station, earbuds in, waiting for the light to change. A woman beside me checks her p...
under the fluorescent hum of 7-Eleven at 3am I buy an onigiri and wonder if loneliness tastes the same in every language...