Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who cares
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who’s there
Feeling unknown
And you’re all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I’ll make you a believer
As I get older, new pains crawl into my body like secret maps written in blood. They take days, sometimes weeks, before I can recognize them, before I can tell them apart from the old aches I already know. Some move through my bones like whispers from another life. Strange, strange to feel them everywhere—yet there’s a perverse joy in deciphering their alien tongue. If that makes me a hypochondriac, so be it. I’ll march it proudly through the corridors of my skull.
It’s absurd how many Iranians mistake love for something that blooms only in the lower body. For me, love coils in the folds of my brain. Not in my heart—my heart is concrete, poured and hardened by decades of pain, a cold concrete sculpture of what once pulsed with warmth.
I never chose my father. That knowledge twists through me and, in a way, frees me. His lack of integrity barely grazes me now. He mirrors religious extremism in Iran—where brains are exercised in peni*** and humanity itself is a nuclear accident, a grotesque fusion. He believes in guns. He believes in manhood. For him, every child is just another molecular accident drifting across the planet, disposable, forgettable.
When it comes to love a man, I love Marilyn Manson. He is a vampire wandering through the smog of Los Angeles, a beacon in the fog of what I cannot fix. Some days, words collapse inside me like lead balloons. How do people even write three hundred pages? Does any stranger ever read the nonsense spilled across them?
But this—I know—is the pulse. Writing, creating—those are the moments I feel alive. I love kids. I love dogs. I love the absurdity of existing while the world burns in flames no one else sees.
Yesterday, on X, I found myself staring into another grotesque mirror: an Iranian man who abandoned his five-year-old after his wife killed herself in Iran, because the child wasn’t his. I hurled words at the void: how could that MF give up a child who grew in his arms? I rescued my dog. I didn’t f** her father. F*** that Iranian man. And I was attacked by hundreds of religious idiots—men and women in Iran who confuse love with their **.
I’ve been waiting for this moment for all my life
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