Category: lines

your name came up
and it made me happy.
though i am not sure
how exactly
it got all the way
up here.

it is one thing to say
it is not right for me.
a whole other to say
this is not how it should be.

I said “teri aankhon ke siva
duniya mein rakha kya hai?”
And she made me a list.

i do not want to be afraid to fail at things
that my heart is truly in.

i must buy a toque,
it’s winter now.
i know what you’re thinking,
“isn’t it always winter in canada?!”
yes, this is true.
it is always winter here.
but we have warm winters and cold winters.
the cold one is now upon us.

i must buy a toque,
it’s cold winter now.

I don’t think we have met.
And even if we have met,
I don’t think we have met.

what was the word
for word
before there was a word
for the word
word?

tell me how you are.
but please, only a word or two.

then we can talk about the weather.
oh, it’s so cold. oh, it’s so sunny.
there. i’ve told you the weather
as if you didn’t feel it on
your own skin.

okay, now let me talk about my
two year old for the next thirty
minutes and show you pictures.

and here we’ll talk about something
the both of us are equally
indifferent towards.

i’ve always wanted to kill you,
and boring you to death is the
only legal way.

the stuff

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup of butter (unsalted)
orange extract
chocolate chips
chocolate chip cookies

the work

i used a machine to mix stuff.

put butter into machine. mix.
put sugar into machine. mix more.

sugar and butter will stick to machine’s mixing rotating thing
and to the sides of the bowl thing.
get it off there and mix some more.

put in flour bit by bit while the mixer is mixing.
add orange extract during the bit by bit flour additions.

wait silently, or whistle while mixing and eventually
the mixture will turn into dough
like magic. but mostly science.

take the dough onto a board like thing
and knead it. with your hands!
for as long as you like, but not too long.

make dough into cookie like shapes and put it on some sheet.

put sheet in to oven pre-heated at 350F.
that’s fahrenheit, not celsius, let’s not get too excited here.

wait for 20-25 minute until cookie shapes turn a little brown.
take cookies out and let them chill out and hang for a while.

melt chocolate chip bits in microwave.
use spoon to stir the melted chips.
use spoon (preferably) to apply melted chocolate to cookies.
i applied them to half the top of the cookies.

wait for chocolate melt to unmelt.
wait over-night before eating.

end of wait.
eat.

if your shortbread cookies are not up to par,
eat the chocolate chip cookies instead.

one thing
i promise you
is that
i love you
right now.