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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You live in a fable.
They laugh at you and call you unstable.
You’re not playing your role.
Nothing about it is fun.
That’s why you threw away the script and wrote another one.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Poem, 5/22/2019 –
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I find comfort in the dark.
When it’s still, that’s when she comes.
We don’t speak, yet we talk.
I play a song for her.
In the middle of my room, we dance.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Poem, 5/24/2019 –
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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 