Masumi's Voice

Masumi's Voice

“It was a day to forget.

Too tired, I receive a call from a friend

I have long decided to cut on.

Shit! we used to be good, the best among the

best, until he screwed it up

or I, so he says.”

Masumi's no longer mad

at his friend   He just reminds himself

daily, he has to

And now the phone call, so

unexpectedly – unlisted number – coming

ashore with its devilish army of memories

foaming sound and

vision wrapping a marble surface

where head's going to

knock

hard

“There was a moment, deeply

sad, when his heart bounced

down the flume. I thought I would

cry.”

Later, he writes it all down   No

need to forgive   No need

to forget

© 2015, José Eduardo Coelho