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Chaos & Kismet

Kaothar Kadir

the underbelly of poetry, essay and fiction - read for a kick in the chest or a kiss on the lips. OR if you're lucky — both.

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Perhaps skin struggling to hang onto bone. Misshapen boobs. Holes where no holes should be.

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I’ll call her Frida because she had a unibrow and was in art class. I recognized Frida by her tiger-gait walk. If I were being dishonest, I would say she looked in need of s...

21 days ago
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a meditation on evil

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When I was eight, the evilest person I knew was not my Alfa, who routinely splayed his hands on my thighs as he taught me the Arabic alphabet, but my cousin, who was prettier and fairer and...

a month ago
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how to kill an audience

You must imagine you and your audience as soup. Different pots of soup. Your audience must be watered down until only the faintest hint of onion, perhaps, garlic, remains, as flat on your tongue as a taste of beige. You, on the other hand,...

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i want a son, here’s a goat

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It cannot be possible that God works this fast. If she does, then I’m glad she never listened when I asked her to smite my neighbor after he ran over one of my mother’s...

2 months ago
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I'm too hungry to think

Monday, Aug 17, 2026

I am too hungry to think, so this is the best possible time for me to write. Is everything with me about writing? I suppose so. For now. I am on a three-day fast as mandated by my soothsayer. He says that I need a spir...

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