Today is January 4th, 2013

Image is from Feeleez

By Ezzat Goushegir

To: Charles. B

I’m not in Facebook

I do not tweet

I do not have an iPhone

No one knows what time of the day I would go to the bathroom

And when I would have diarrhea

No one knows when I drink a glass of red wine

Or make love to the one I love

No one knows what movie I saw last night

And when I take a shower in a Hotel room

Or take my cat or dog for a walk

No one knows whether I eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant or in the Subway

Or at home

No one knows when I fart

I come home after a long silent day at work

I check my mailbox

No letters or cards but lots of junk mail

I check my answering machine

No one has called or left me a message

I make a light dinner

Read the newspaper

Listen to the radio

Read the latest news in the internet

Watch something on TV

Read a passage of a novel or a poem

No one has sent me an email

But I got mass invitations from here and there

Begging me politely to be there for their event

Asking me for donations to assure them how important they are!

I look outside the window through the dark night

All holiday lights around the trees twinkle

“Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are”

Twinkle on, twinkle off

Twinkle on, twinkle off

I take a shower

And brush my teeth

Then turn off the lights

In darkness

I stand before myself on the mirror

No reflections of me there

As I enter into the pure liquid of silence

I see a green light flashes rapidly 

A train fast runs towards me

With a loud sound and piercing fury

Am I broken into pieces?

Sheer silence

I hear my own voice repeating alphabets

A, B, C, D, E, F, G

H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P

Q, R, S, T, U, V,

W, X, Y and Z

They call me rebellious!!