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Tim Mansour

Tim Mansour

Writing for my life.

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Tim Mansour
Tim Mansour
Sep 13, 2018 · 1 min read

Dialectic

How can I tell you
that what I had is gone?

if all these vowels and consonants
put flesh on the bones of my thought

how do I express less
in the substance of syllables?

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Tim Mansour
Tim Mansour
Jul 23, 2017 · 1 min read

Stari Grad

Date: 2017–05–31

The Old Town doesn’t look the same.

Walking alone feels lighter, but less radiant, like I need the heat from our friction.

To write is to live. Pushing the creation through thin blue lines, building a sentence for…

Tim Mansour
Tim Mansour
May 19, 2017 · 1 min read

Pieces of Me

There are voices in me that sing the morning

Fissures of me that are racked with pain

Every time I breathe I can feel a different space.

Holding these orbs together I have made a full-time job

Tim Mansour
Tim Mansour
Apr 25, 2017 · 2 min read

The Storytellers

Date: 2017–04–16

What can I dream of, safely?
Feared not to sleep, mind
working its own way inward,
obsessing over stolen phones and
naked men, children with blood noses
brave the ward and whisper about
and crying shame
and weeping long

Tim Mansour
Tim Mansour
Dec 10, 2016 · 1 min read

Wish me luck, oh stars and angels!
for brighter days may rise from
deep within this blister pack of soporific bullets.

Perhaps I’ll leave aside poor Winston’s dog
(take him for his walk some other day)
Since each long, elliptic path
returns me to the hook where that leash…