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        <title><![CDATA[Stories by Meiko Tuna on Medium]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Jacques Vacant]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 13:04:43 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2026-05-17T14:05:06.819Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My mind spins<br>And I am terrified<br>You are in it<br>And out of sight</p><p>Is your heart vacant?<br>Is it occupied?<br>Is it <em>nonchalant</em>?<br>Or is it <em>tongue-tied</em>?</p><p>Is your heart vacant?<br>Is your heart vacant?<br>Is your heart vacant?<br>Is your heart vacant?</p><p>You have stolen mine<br>And I come undone</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=d14e3344b933" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Letter Away]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:10:51 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You threw away my copy of Tao Te Ching<br>to put your Mao Tse-tung on display.<br>On the IKEA shelf we built together,<br>is there more room now to catch a breather?<br>Do you show it to your friends?<br>Or <em>community</em> of <em>camaraderie</em>?<br>Would they still love you when the eyes can’t see?<br>Has our landlord said that rent is free?</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=83a80a0c3105" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Steve Jobs Was a Fruitarian]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 22:06:02 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2025-08-31T12:59:11.861Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’m not my mother<br>You sure aren’t my daughter<br>My friends and I both know<br>That we got a splinter</p><p>I swear on my father<br>And my brother and holy spirit<br>That nothing is ever holy<br>So long as we’re there to invent it</p><p>The popes are drunk on water<br>Tech guys typing on their knees<br>Only half a scientist agree<br>Our savior is the tree</p><p>Where did all the women go<br>Back when they weren’t married?<br>And what did they have to say<br>To the children they didn’t carry?</p><p>I’m not my mother<br>You sure aren’t my daughter<br>But my friends and I both know<br>That we’re stuck with the splinter</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=d0b9cb3aab7a" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dead Ends Meet]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 05:00:19 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2024-10-07T05:00:27.917Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is power in numbers<br>And I am not Alan Turing <br>Life is a full-seat theater <br>And I am bad at performing</p><p>I&#39;m bad at performing<br>I&#39;m bad at performing<br>I&#39;m bad at performing<br>I&#39;m bad</p><p>Everyone else seems in a race<br>And I find myself crawling<br>I got no pacifier phase <br>Now a grown-up ugly crying</p><p>I&#39;m a grown-up ugly crying<br>I&#39;m a grown-up ugly crying<br>I&#39;m a grown-up ugly crying<br>I&#39;m a grown-up</p><p>I wish I was a cucumber<br>Cool enough as side dressing<br>Or a badass bitch anteater<br>Just eating ants all morning</p><p>I&#39;m meeting ends all morning<br>I&#39;m meeting ends all morning<br>I&#39;m meeting ends all morning<br>I&#39;m meeting ends</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=03b7bace39ef" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mmm]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Meiko Tuna]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2024 21:21:44 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2025-12-17T05:33:51.212Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dari dulu aku bertanya<br>Di mana surga?<br>Di mana neraka?<br>Apa benar itu ada?</p><p>Semakin besar aku, semakin gusar batinku<br>Ini sakit, musti berdoa kepada siapa?<br>Kalau tuhan ada, seperti kata mereka, kenapa dunia masih saja acakadut porak poranda?</p><p>Semakin besar aku, semakin kasar pikiranku<br>Mungkin tuhan alasan saja, untuk menindas kita semua<br>Supaya mereka suci, dan aku tetap kotor<br>Mungkin tuhan tidak pernah tuhan, cuma lelucon dan angan-angan horor</p><p>Tapi, semakin besar aku, semakin lembut ubun-ubunku<br>Mungkin tuhan memang perlu, aku capek sendiri melulu<br>Mungkin tuhan benar selalu, kita yang sok dan belagu</p><p>Surga dan neraka mungkin benar-benar ada<br>Bukan di atas langit, bukan di bawah tanah<br>Cuma sekarang dan di sini<br>Di dalam hati, di dalam diri</p><p>Mungkin tuhan tidak pernah tuhan yang kita impi-impikan<br>Tuhan ada, diam di dalam<br>Sampai menuntut untuk keluar</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=df1b11a74095" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Koral]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2024 04:47:18 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2024-09-07T04:47:18.327Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Debris-debris di koral<br>Perairan transparan<br>Musik dan angan-angan<br>Teriakan banal</p><p>Air mata baal<br>Anak kecil kehilangan<br>Bunga mana yang kekal?<br>Rambut-rambut berserakan</p><p>Gangguan akal-akalan<br>Aku maaf, kamu benar<br>Aku salah, kamu juga<br>Kita perlu bicara</p><p>Kita perlu bicara<br>Debris-debris di koral<br>Menanti di perairan<br>Dalam, dalam, dalam</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=8b831e3e2592" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[No Eulogy]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2024 06:58:30 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2025-08-31T12:56:09.034Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I am awakened<br>I haven’t had much sleep this week<br>I encountered my soul sister<br>The whole experience <em>was</em>, to say the least<br>She struck my cord<br>Not what a soulmate would feel in my dreams</p><p>It ached so much my heart pulverized<br>My head went white with creaking shards<br>I was unable to mean it<br>I was just going through something</p><p>I held my hopes up like I&#39;d never<br>I dropped everything, stripped, exposed<br>Shaken like a lost puppy, but I found something not stopping me</p><p>I felt bruised<br>Lashed out<br>Scrutinized</p><p>Yet still I belted all I could stomach<br>I got nothing in return<br>She just stared at me, words in her mouth<br>I couldn&#39;t even see her glare<br>But I have not just myself anymore now, there&#39;s them, and all of it</p><p>Sharp<br>I felt my heartbeat through the hole<br>My senses went cold<br>Suffocated<br>Then hot flesh striked when it&#39;s most quiet</p><p>And I felt something crawling out of me<br>Scratches only I could hear at night<br>Dancing to my MP3, scribbling, crying, kneeling down<br>While I was out cold, falling asleep</p><p>The next morning turned into night<br>And the same thing kept happening<br>Until today I am awakened<br>With all my insides hollowed out<br>And what I’ve lost comes chirping in<br>Another half, opened wide</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=68fbe0950b38" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[On My Knees]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Meiko Tuna]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2024 10:20:58 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2024-08-22T02:22:53.695Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I prayed for someone like you<br>But I&#39;m afraid I&#39;m just bad karma<br>You&#39;re an essay way overdue<br>And I&#39;m a poem of your trauma</p><p>Look at the author messing with us<br>Thinking that you know I know it will last<br>Who were we kidding? Treading the past?<br>Thinking that you know I know how to trust</p><p>I prayed for someone like you<br>But I&#39;m afraid I&#39;ll be your karma<br>You know maybe I prayed too hard<br>And now the author knows too much</p><p>Looking at us from the upper floor<br>Thinking that you know I know how to fall<br>Who are we kidding? Making the call?<br>Thinking that you know I know where we’re from</p><p>I prayed for someone like you<br>But I&#39;m afraid I&#39;m just a karma</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=da69906e2685" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Where the Wind Blows]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2024 06:04:08 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2024-10-07T05:03:35.804Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#39;m struggling in a moving car just to make sense of what you said. <br>I&#39;m putting back all the pieces that will never come together. <br>I&#39;m hearing things in my sleep, in the snow, and at the field. <br>It&#39;s a song I can&#39;t remember, a song I can&#39;t forget.</p><p>I’m rolling glad and upset, calm and afraid. <br>When the naked bald men said they needed the opposition, <br>they were asking for help to unfuck the institution<br>where I had my first ever spill of intuition.</p><p>I&#39;m seeing blue waves and black pigs, the backs of the little kids, <br>idle houses with railings, a line of strangers&#39; clothings.<br>I&#39;m talking to friends who share traits, some speak Dutch and ugly thoughts.<br>Some sit in circles to chant &quot;ohm,&quot; a shared effort to cleanse their souls.</p><p>And I&#39;m watching, <br>and I&#39;m watching, <br>on edge and my own.</p><p>With both my eyes shut, therefore I know<br>none of it stays when I decide<br>that I’m looking for a way out<br>of silly fights and parking lots<br>and razor blades I never bought.</p><p>And I’m waiting<br>And I’m waiting<br>And I’m waiting for a stop</p><p>And I&#39;m asking<br>And I&#39;m asking<br>Whose manifesto is my spot?</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=8521089a3e78" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Dent Appt.]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Meiko Tuna]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:10:38 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2024-04-27T10:15:28.557Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/634/1*tu-1ckdlAWvr0fBwZ6ZHBA.jpeg" /></figure><p>I awoke freaked out before my whole teeth, <br>yet another thing disintegrated in my sleep. <br>I opened wide my mouth, and there the uppers were gone. <br>A slight second apart, came the bottoms all spat out.<br> <br>That was my cue to run mortified. <br>I rushed to the mirror, and I cried, <br>“How the heck did it just do that? <br>Well, the front is not too bad.”<br> <br>I then pulled off some grin to see <br>if I could still hide behind courtesy. <br>But, at this point, honestly? <br>My mouth got weird, jagged, and wonky.<br> <br>So I took it as a cue, I had to find it’s not the truth. <br>Slow as I walk to the mirror, the whole thing began to come through, <br>“I’m scared to lose what I have left, <br>I’m scared to lose what I have left.”</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=2222565667f5" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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