Few Haikus on Tic 2: The Procrastination Update Tales


Been writing a bit more since my last update of poems, which is me sort of keeping to that New Year’s resolution I made. The context of these usually gets a few laughs when I read them out so I’ll stick that in sure. This is all fresh and funky content from 2015/16, have a read, stick it on your Instagram to look cool n deep, show your friends etc. etc.


Smoking Area Serenity

In places that can be as anxiety inducing as clubs and pubs, there’s a small centre of peace that can be found in the smoking area. The generosity of strangers comes to the fore when one is in need of a light, a skin or a filter. Intimate connections and some of the best conversations you could have can all be found over this shared ritual of sparking up a cigarette.


Shared flame and small talk,

Disconnection from my woes,

Finally at ease.


The Melancholy Nature of Green Dots

There’s a peculiar sort of option paralysis that comes from an “active on messenger” that has a lot of people. They could be people you added due to being at a thing with them, or having a large number of mutuals and forgetting where you know them from, or even people just added so you can farm likes off them or so you can creep on them. They could be people you’ve already met, but don’t know how to start chatting to. They could be people you’ve fallen out with, or grown cold towards, or even just haven’t spoken to in a while.  


Fingers caught by words,

Unspeakable, unspoken,

New starts, closed chapters.


Somewhat Semi-Requited

Written before a reading while I was bored in a meeting and thinking I wanted to have something new to test out, this is about a near universal experience to folk who’ve ever been infatuated with someone. While seeing a friend’s face light up when this person they’d had a thing for noticing them inspired it, this should strike a chord with most of ye.  Be it a smile, a nod, a hello, small talk while rolling a cigarette outside, your content on social media getting liked, there’s a small endorphin rush that comes when “senpai notices you”, to borrow a phrase from the anime fandom


Hung up on hellos,

Sweet snatches of attention,

Hopes not quite dashed yet.

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