Vi Khi Nao
T H E D E F I N I T I O N O F
CHARISMA: A personality disorder involving the use of magnetism to
generate social order 2) the ability to gather light from
others and make it emanate from one's eyes and mouth
and face 3) in context of a leader, a charismatic individual
gains economic and social advantages by smiling widely
and destroying others or the lives of others in the process.
Sometimes smiling widely and exuding magnetism
encourage the activities of artifice 4) it is related to the
cousin of charm, but charisma can carry ominous flair and
become more charming in its sadistic methods 5) an
establishment of attractiveness and civilizational appeals.
RESENT: A verb at best, a thing maybe, a profession. Depending on
the circumstances,it can be a brief or extensive career with
acidity not related to melons, limes, lemons, grapefruits,
green apples, etc. MEANINGS: The ability to deliver an
invested emotion back into a certain location of the body,
such as on the tip of the hypaxial muscles or along the
ribcage of the chest. RESENT has the following siblings:
RESENTS, RESENTED, RESENTMENT,
RESENTER(S), and other members who neglect to
appear on this page. RESENTMENT has an infrequent
birthday and will only celebrate the anniversary of its birth
if it remembers. This explains why large celebrations are
usually followed by infrequent smaller ones. Resentment,
for instance, is not like fish or lettuce when it enters the
body of its host. It’s more like beef. When the host ingests
it, the parasite sits and rots and never really truly goes
away. RESENTMENT, as a profession, has a teaching
assistant named ANGER, which feeds its stomach with
more educated parasites. These intellectual parasites live
for days & months & years before being subdued by other
primitive parasites such screaming & fisting. Sometimes
RESENTMENT retires to a place of comfort before
climbing a hill to disappear into the wilderness of other
emotion-related creatures. RESENTMENT descended
from the French in 1610. After that, like the invention of
the icemaker, everyone had to have it.
Vi Khi Nao is the author of a novel, Fish in Exile, and a poetry collection, The Old Philosopher. Vi’s work includes poetry, fiction, film and cross-genre collaboration. She was the winner of 2014 “Nightboat Poetry Prize” and the 2016 “Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest”.