Besiana Vathi is a student in Amsterdam. 

 Pearl Myth

Be careful with the gravel, mother says.
It will not help you when the current

of blood is wild neither will it cure
seasickness. Stop living in the intermediary,

she says. Choose the right spoon. But I
cannot think of anything that breathes

me more than the motion of bullets sinking.
I hope to be anything but the flocks of

people swarming to the cemetery where
mist dies day in and day out. I don't need

your pity. I am in full realization that all
you are is a lie.