DURIAN PEOPLE
MAY CHONG
We are all a
bit durian: thoughts and thorns and shells and hard hearts, clinging to what little softness the world has not stripped away with flat, terrible teeth. Some people are not durian people. Let them be. You may yet find ones who love your singular scent; the way your thorns catch the lines of their palms; the feel of your flesh against their lips. The heat you inspire. Providence guide you to those who adore your stateliness, the way you grow without haste into your own grace; the ones who lie awake laughing to themselves as the fruits of your labour make landfall, like cannons booming before dawn. |
May Chong is a 30-year-old digital content writer born and raised in Malaysia who writes fiction and poetry. May Chong's work has most recently been part of Little Basket 2017 and Micro Malaysians (Fixi Novo) as well as inkscrawl vol. 10.