Ayiyi Joel is a 19-year-old poet from Edo state in Nigeria. He has works published/forthcoming on Synchronized chaos, cathartic lit, The Beatnik cowboy, poemify, Nnoko stories, and elsewhere.
Boys are tender too
Again
Another star
Fell from the sky.
At the college hostel.
A body empty of god/
Something swinging/ rope
Fastening it to the ceiling/
Unwinding the soul from
The Body/ another form
Of separation. Dissection.
Maybe separation is another
Way of escape in a land where
Being a boy equally spells e x i t.
Which means, to be a boy is suicide.
Which means, to be a boy is identical
To cutting your chest to grieve another
Comrade who fell by the riffle of a cop.
Which means, being a boy is moving
Your feet to the call of depression.
Which means, being a boy wants
The touch of your fingers on
Gbana/igbo/hemp/pills
*Gbana/igbo/hemp/pills/- drugs taken by some youths.
Contributor’s Bio
Ayiyi Joel is a 19-year-old poet from Edo state in Nigeria. He has works published/forthcoming on Synchronized chaos, cathartic lit, The Beatnik cowboy, poemify, Nnoko stories, and elsewhere.
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