We Only Care About The Beautiful Things – Mubarak Said
We Only Care About The Beautiful Things the clock is moving backward, & the sun is stealing the traces of our smiles. everything bears the negative meaning of its name—the smiles we pretend to be missing, the embrace of the light, and the dryness of the sky. we only care about the things with flashy skins. the wind kept swinging between two end-points: water & hell. water is blind, the hell has flares. father said, the thing next to water is flame. the flame is blind too. yet, we only care about the beautiful things. there is a garden on our palms. water is red, roses are red. everything looks strange from within. roses are beautiful, and red water is horrible. & we only care about the beautiful things. we are servants of what refused to be ours. we are boys, we are men, & sometimes we identified as commodities on a market stalls. the market, a dark room. the stalls, a thorn bed, massaging the curtain between our skins and bones. it is all monstrous. but still, we only care about the beautiful things. Contributor’s Bio Mubarak Said, TPC XII, SprinNG & SAF Alumni, is the winner of the 2023 Bill Ward Prize For Emerging Writers (Prose) and […]
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