Hunger

Hunger

Akilesh Ayyar

I want to crunch on
keycaps from
mechanical keyboards
and hear their
clicky friction
in my grinding gears of teeth.
They would pluck my longing nerves
to administrative melody.

Akilesh Ayyar writes essays, fiction, and poetry, and has published work at The MillionsPhilosophy NowLiterate Sunday, and elsewhere. He is also a spiritual teacher of contemporary Hindu philosophy and meditation, and has written multiple books on those topics, including How to Find What Isn’t Lost: A Short, Pro-Intellectual, Pro-Desire Guide to Enlightenment. He maintains a web presence for his teaching at siftingtothetruth.com.