The Waking Hours of an Outcast: Highly Flammable Poem

by M. Ait Ali

M. Ait Ali was born in January, 1992, in Agadir. A Moroccan writer and poet, who finds in words and poetry a total escape from the depressive realism one encounters in his everyday life.Poetry and writing for him are both a passion and a therapy capable of taming his demons.since childhood, he had a weakness for both reading books and writing, and his love for words developed into a daily obligatory passion, which is definitely a sort of relief and progress.M. Ait Ali tries through his writings to speak the woes that the broken ones endure silently.He has survived in summer 2016 a failed suicide attempt "O.D." following a tragic event.Since then, he vowed to refill his soul with his passion for words, and the meaning it accords him.He earned in 2016 a bachelor's degree in renewable energies and energy efficiency at The Higher School of Technology-Agadir, (EST.) along with a diploma in advanced French.His most readings are in English, French, and Arabic from his favorite authors and philosophers as Stendhal, Schopenhauer, Baruch Spinoza, Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Percy Shelley, Fernando Pessoa, Bukoswski, Kerouac, Walt Whitman, Khalil Gibran, Al-Manfaluti...

104 pages, Paperback

Published March 14, 2020

About the author

M. Ait Ali was born in Agadir, Morocco — He attended the Higher School of Technology-Agadir, from which he earned a BEng in Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency, just to decide, two years later, on a whim from above, or maybe most accurately, from within to switch gears into the world of literature and inner search.

He loves to invest the time he has on his hands in reading mystical scriptures; watering plants; feeding and dotting on stray cats and dogs (those pretty-pretty quirky angels or aliens running wild in streets with their stylish coats on.) And, at times, when the dark bares its teeth, he bathes in the grace of Moonlight to meditate and find valid answers to the riddle of eclipsed days and moons.

M. Ait Ali’s work is a relentless and perpetual self-ascribed mission of turning the wine-and-steak tables on the horrors of Man and his sterile seeds. In experimental attempts and needful wanderings off the designated literary paths, he tries to depict the soulless existence of the contemporary society by mentioning either explicitly or implicitly how, since its inception, it has been miring and treading on the hearts and faces of many among us just to brag about a faux-glimmering destination, which is nothing but hollow and pathetic in essence — staining our souls with more irrational matter torments and shallow earthly perceptions.

His work can be found in The Tipton Poetry Journal, Variant Literature Inc., Straylight Literary Arts Mag, Sandstorm UTPB Mag, The Cape Rock, Black Fox Lit Mag, Platform Review, Hive Avenue Lit Journal, and many other publications.