The Detour:

People express love differently. They do a hand full of silly things that as an outsider you may find weird and infuriating, but for lovers, a way to have quality time. So you don't have to just judge couples. My ex, his face was richly endowed with big and at times swollen ripe pimples with yellow pus peeping through the pimple windows as if trying to push through towards freedom. It’s like we were always on competition. He, of course, was the unbeatable winner ‘cause my pimples only came around during that time of the month and were usually tiny, swelling only when provoked. Zabuloni and I always popped each other’s ripe pimples for fun.  How it started.  One of those lonely evenings, Zabu and I agreed to meet under one of the shades around city square. Most coupes did meet there. We talked all there was to talk about and suddenly there was nothing else left to do than stare at each other which was rather boring. Finally, as if he had been practicing the line over ...

I have been surprised by many things before and in fact overwhelmed by some of them. But, may God damn the day I failed to get surprised as I should have. I disappointed a lot of people that I love. To be clear, the previous times I have been surprised by things, I think I was alone. So perhaps I laughed out loud, or shook my head and then the rest of the surprise digestion took place in my head; wondering how something could have happened with my eyes open and yet not figured it out. Like in the movies, they usually surprise me; so when am watching movies, I work out conspiracies; I replay suspicious parts so that I get the actions and words right. I want to work out what’s coming next so that I don’t be caught by surprise as if I would lose a million dollars which I don’t have if I did.  However, I love when the movie gets me off guard. I get to think about what I could have missed, I try to figure it out in my bed and it’s what takes me to a nice slumber, sometimes takin...