HeyJaredMaria Matheou
Spilling words on love and life. Poetry, prose, a novel in progress and thoughts on transformation.
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The Other Side Of The Road (opens the original)
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Content Note: This piece contains descriptions of physical violence and references to suicide and psychosis. The strobe lights blazed around the club as we danced to the sounds of 1997’s Eurodance. My brother Louie was already drunk. My girlfriend and I danced on the bar, strangers hands reaching up and grabbing our legs.I watched as Louie staggered over to one of the strangers and whacked him in the face for daring to touch us. I saw the young man’s feet lift off the ground from the force of th
Paradiso (opens the original)
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It was 2009. My girlfriend was pregnant with our second child.I was picking up my friend from her home in Hackney, where she lived with her recent ex-girlfriend. She was a fragile, fairy-like young woman, fresh from Hull. She moved to London to be with her girlfriend. Her girlfriend met someone else and ended the relationship, but they still lived together.London keeps you trapped in places you no longer belong in.I had tickets to an adaptation of Dorian Gray at Sadler’s Wells and had invited he
Sex-Stained Sheets (opens the original)
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Sex-stained sheets are staring at me.I’ve been sleeping in them for two nights. I haven’t showered, and I stink.My daughter was stranded overnight at Galileo Galilei Airport. Guilt was gnawing at me for having booked an earlier flight that got me back to London before flights started getting cancelled.Insomnia had its grip on me for what seemed like forever. Barely able to keep my eyes open, I stayed up through the night with her via WhatsApp.I had found out from the woman I was seeing while she
Stagnant Continuation (opens the original)
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Stagnant continuation,conversations that could not flow.A collision about to unfold.Get to know me,get to know you.No time.Time ticks.Speak, speak, speak.No time.Internalise, internalise.Silence is safe.Words are deranged.Cry silent tears.Tears stay silent.Gasping, breathless.Get to know me,get to know you.No time.Time slips and slides.Sheets stay stained.Sunshine shone.The curtains are drawn.<div class="captioned-image-container
The Stillness of the White Cat (opens the original)
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A cat with a fluffy white coat,white as snowon distant mountaintops,perches on a rooftop.Hilltops hiddenby the low haze of rain clouds.Rainbows gently hold me—safe in their colours,as bare branchesstretch and yawninto the misty morn.Through the open windowthe cat and I meet-I see the catthe cat sees me.We breathe in cool,foggy air.Time collapses -we are both still.For a simple momentthe cat and I sit together—bonded by nature’ssoft flow.<p
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