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Like Every Good Boy I Look Forward to Meeting My (the) Rapist by Akpa Arinzechukwu

May 24, 2018 | Akpa Arinzechukwu, All Authors, Issue 6, Day in the Life of a Survivor

& suddenly yesterday I stopped being twenty. I am tired of being found alive.   It was night a minute ago. I keep losing my head —   Surprised it is always found in the refrigerator: Citalopram-stench, blueprints of L.   Last night I was so old I...

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