Kartik Prajapat   (k.a.e)
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Joined 7 August 2019


Joined 7 August 2019
25 JUN AT 23:03

you learn from me 
to brief y at its tail.

you tell me that
your handwriting is
not as good as mine. 

you write my name 
darkening its first letter

and in that gesture, I bolden
myself in more ways
than one

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29 MAY AT 0:09

it cut through,
the cloth stayed still.
no tear
but I knew.

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26 MAY AT 2:20

I quite wrote not,
nor said it enough.
In the clean and
unshown light,
I became a star
of the day— you don’t see.
I didn’t ask you to.

At night, you’d want,
but not. And I’d remain
—just be, unasked.

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21 MAY AT 22:18

does the wall
feel held

or does it feel
hammered
with a
nail ?



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17 MAY AT 4:23

Some days
ask leaves to vein in
the core of soil.
You start
asking if the fall
had its reasons.

In the silence of greens,
wind grows weary
of carrying wrong messages —
how to let go without noise,
and not awaken
earthly protest.

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16 APR AT 1:50

yesterday, the sky looked
just like milk turning into paneer.
my sorrow broke,
separating from the hope.

I stepped out
of the stifling heat of the bus,
and it stirred in me slowly—

thoughts curdling
through the layers of my numb mind.
The silence of the street
crowded in

each realisation cold
like unboiled milk—
in quiet unsettling.

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26 MAR AT 21:24

I wash my face 
in the reflection of whom
is a mirror so capturing.

I loose my sight, and let 
myself be washed 
off into you.

continued in caption—

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22 MAR AT 1:01

on the blindfold of luck I stumbled upon choices,
only when I loosened the grip did I see 
what was mine to truly choose.
I met my blue. Asked it to the sky — 
held in sparkling white
and footed to a swathe that offered shadows.
Over and again I returned to the must of the street
with guilt heavy in my feet.
As I walked, I stretched lights,
touched corners and broke softly.
I ran to the trees for the noise
that the sunlight made.

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8 MAR AT 0:13

I got my right ear pierced with a silver ring. There was no pain—not even the sting of the needle. I had to ask him if it was really done.

As I looked at myself in the mirror, I gently caressed my earlobe. The ring. There was no blood. I could swivel it effortlessly.

When I returned home, my mother applied mustard oil boiled with garlic cloves. Lying on my left side, careful not to flip over, I felt a faint discomfort. It grew, slowly but surely, into excruciating pain. I couldn’t touch it. I slept, enduring it.

Over the next few days, my ear started to recover. Yet, every time I attempted to rotate the ring voluntarily, the pain varied in intensity. At times, it ached so much that I wanted to take it out and let the pain fade. At others, it was so sensitive that even the wind’s touch stung. And sometimes, though untouched, it throbbed with a lingering affliction.

Now. I have a gold piece. It shines.

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21 FEB AT 19:49

what feels like 
a heavy rope
perfectly arched
on skin, is grief—
kept in balance
until it aches.

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