Little Flat on the First Floor
Gold sounds like the drawing of curtains against the rod.
Blue sounds like the ticking before the flames on the stove turns on.
Brown sounds like the wooden instrument used to crush pepper for stews.
Yellow sounds like opening the freezer and taking out a pack of ginger cubes.
Black sounds like the chopping board bouncing against a worktop.
Green sounds like herbs being boiled inside of a discoloured pot.
Silver sounds like water being run into a metal sink from the tap.
White sounds like the inconsistent humming of a broken extractor fan.
Sometimes I dream in familiar sounds.
uploaded: 30/12/21
Alphabet Soup
You’re alphabet soup in preschool.
You’re innocent, like when snow meant Christmas.
You’re the security in holding a parents’ hand to cross the road.
You’re the love from Seyahat’s mum giving us ice poles out the window in the summer.
You’re the fear when our ball would land in the old lady’s plants.
You’re knee slides in the garden screaming a footballer’s name.
You are Rooney, You are Kaka, You are Ronaldinho.
You’re the tree trunk and jumper being used as goal posts.
You’re the one that has to stretch their leg to get the ball from underneath the car.
You’re birthday parties inside of Bruce Grove McDonald’s.
You’re Holy Communions celebrated inside Aroma in Wood Green.
You’re the gospel and r’n’b being played on the CD in my mum’s Volvo.
You’re the knock on the door carrying the question:
‘Can Denzel play outside please?’
You’re a time I’ll never get back.
uploaded: 30/12/21
Truancy
Who do you confide to in the moments when you’re marking the attendance of my affection, and it’s absent?
uploaded: 30/12/21
Letter to You
For whom it may concern,
Stop worrying about what it looks like,
And focus on what it is.
Execution gets refined over time,
And you’re wasting yours with ideals in perfection that don’t exist.
Bad ideas get better,
Good ones you never develop, stay just that: ideas.
Make sure that where you want your art to go is genuine and from the heart,
The hardest part is believing in yourself enough to start.
Yours sincerely,
QK.
uploaded: 30/12/21
Ways of the World
You man don’t even really wanna be rich for yourselves,
You just fantasise about a life where you can get revenge, by turning down pretty girls.
My words more food for thought, your money just a supplement for your confidence,
Stop chasing jawns that only care about you when your pockets garner influence.
uploaded: 30/12/21
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