Yogurt cures the saltiness
And so does a long walk
Sometimes i even pour the water without a single drop
Sometimes i feel when it is about to happen
Like when they predict the rain
Sometimes I’m hopeful
Like when they predict sun
Like when there are no cases
But there’s a slip
A drip
So don’t slip
Even if i walk carefully i skid
Even looking down
When learning to ride a bike i learned to look straight ahead
It helped
Sometimes things change and I don’t realize
Until i open my ears
Like when all of a sudden I don’t hear crying cats
Only muffled voices
Nothing breaks the silence for a while
Sometimes my voice does
It slashes through
That’s what it seems like from her reaction
I’d like to learn to control it
Like counting almonds
I can measure how many drops of sound i place in my next sentence
And how many almonds i eat
Seven
Haft
Except when eating haft mewa
In which case
The slivered almonds are the uncontrolled variable
Our eating is non linear in ramadan
My walking is non linear
Always

Allia Jahanbin