lacuna bridge

let us remember
tie our navels end to end
umbilical dreams

by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2021

PERFECTION IN ACTION // Cut Off

I used to be yakuza but not anymore. I was kicked out because of a tattoo.

I wanted to compose a tribute for the Oyabun, a haiku to celebrate his heroic exploits and boundless charisma. Endowed with this as a tattoo, I would be showing him the gravity of my devotion, my unquestioning firmness to serve him unto death.

Unfortunately, my handwriting sucks so the tattooist misread the haiku. Instead of the kanji for ‘handsome’ he tattooed the kanji for ‘unpleasant’. You can see how the fault is mine.

Or maybe the Oyabun didn’t like me showing him my balls?

by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2020

zigzag (shy away)

plap plap plap… sound check
ready or not, here i come!
the first summer rain

by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2020

sunday, 11:59pm

planned: cleaning, laundry,
jogging, cooking and reading
done: tanked in dota

by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2020

saturday, 1:16pm

…that last shot felt odd
i tap mitten’s empty tin
sip hair of the dog

by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2020