brain leakage

Vali Asr Sq., Tehran 1960s                          

i may never go back

and cars

drunk with heat

ravaged by rain and beat and tired

driven from one street to a corner to a lonely lot

they seem to breath

i may never go back and sad, sad, sudden sadness sits on my hands

my crippled multi-coloured fingernails

"not to be taken seriously," he says

but colorful enough

to be banned.