Like a million other college students, I am thrown home. To the burbs. My days are lined with online pretense, my nights, with old cartoons. I take long bikes rides, I shuffle through dog-eared books, I worry about my grandparents. I write haikus:
Returning to our
too-small bikes, VHS tapes,
we drink up their glow.
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The morning opens.
Each screen, again, pithily
reads: Get fucked deathhead.
–March 25, 2020
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Marco Harnam Kaisth is a computer scientist, artist, and poet. He is a Global Leadership Fellow at Waseda University. He was the 2019 University of Chicago New Voices in Poetry student reader, and runner-up in the Vermont Poetry Society’s 2020 national contest. His work has exhibited at Purification Ritual, the Zimmerli Museum, and Commiserate Chicago.
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