Hana Diponegoro

“It was too much.

The comfortable people made comfortable jokes
about weather and things
but I sat mostly silent
saying a word or so when necessary
a word or so
trying to hide from them the fact that I was a fool
and feeling terrible

And I was numb,
numb again,
numb
again
again and again,
numbness and pain swelling in
me.”
― Charles Bukowski