On living

By Ahmet Baglan in Poems on

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel, for example— I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation. Living is no laughing matter: you must take it seriously, so much so and to such…

Why do I write?

By Ahmet Baglan on

To remember how things felt, why I once thought a certain way. As I write these lines, I am 33 years old. I am much further ahead than I was supposed to be and so so behind than I once thought I would be. I have lived in three different…