[rawe2]
lately I’ve been sighing because
five plus five is ten and
ten plus ten is twenty and
no matter how many times I break the tip of my yellow 2H pencil
I won’t live freely
—the type of freedom that allows my mind to say
“I don’t even know what I’m doing sometimes”—
must be exhilarating
crying like Jack the Ripper
hugging like an Arbok
it’s all about tuck and roll anyway
lately I’ve been yawning because
I want monday to end, so it can be friday and
sunday to end, so it can be monday and
no matter how many times I pour myself a disconnected-controller lie
I will lose my acorn.
Ricardo Fadlallah is a Brazilian poet, photographer and student of Computer Science at the University of Balamand, Lebanon. He is minoring in Filmmaking, loves pop culture and street photography. Dreams of teaching in universities around the world and developing his own video games. Also, he talks a lot.