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"Please Please Me" • The Beatles (by Anushka Bidani)


what am i if not my ambition, i wonder out loud in a’s kitchen. 

wet face breaking thru warm wind my existential apprehension 

is soon lost to smoky inattention. i am manning the home bar for 

the night, attending to frnds jostling at the counter for seconds and thirds. 

i crush mint. bounce ice. trace salt with tipsy-tipped fingers 

onto flashing rims. like a cat with a laser light, half-body, half-music, 

i chase the sweet opening notes of Please Please Me. post-class lunch 

is a forgotten dream, another day when i picked reels over meals. in 

the din of spinning skins, my spine unspools. hands floating between 

water and wine, finding ground in the alchemist’s playground. my 

mama always said ambition requires perfection and perfection calls 

for discipline and discipline necessitates sacrifice. as k pulls me under 

the disco light, i wonder how much time i’ve lost trying to do right 

in lieu of just. doing



Anushka Bidani is a poet & essayist from India. You can find her at anushkabidani.com

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