Counting down my time.
My drive keeps me alive.
So I hustle and I grind.
As soon as I stop, that’s when darkness thrives.
It lurks, patiently waiting for my last mentor to die.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, poem, 6/15/19 –
I took this photo in Pearl City, Hawaii on June 22, 2019.
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“If love is all-powerful, can it survive the deepest divides caused by anger and suffering?”
I wrote this sentence as I was preparing my query letters to literary agencies for my second novel, a historical fiction about a friendship that is born between an Iraqi boy and girl while in a hospital after surviving a suicide bomb.
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JON RIKI KARAMATSU 