It takes me a second to change the channel he said, making a gesture by his temple, meaning from Mandarin to Cantonese.
Whenever I stop paying attention it goes back to re-runs.
my new new balances and the colorful Converse I bought back when I was a man are not mentioned in the counterterrorist training manuals.
Nor is the grief of having led a different life.
I am a collection of unmanufactured clothes, untaken photographs, fantasy friendships hard work done and yet to do surgeries endured, traumas overcome things reduced, reconstituted and molecularised
I am engaged in friendly conversation because I succeeded in leaving my troubles behind.