thirteen by caleb femi

• You will be four minutes from home when you are cornered by an officer who will tell you of a robbery, forty minutes ago in the area.
• You fit the description of a man? 

  - You’ll laugh
• Thirteen, you’ll tell him: you’re thirteen
• This same officer had an horizon in the east
• you were all supernovas, the biggest and brightest stars.
• he will see you powerless – plump.
• heat of your supernova
• Don’t you remember me? you will ask.
• While fear condenses on your lips,
• your teacher speaking more about supernovas:

  how they are, in fact, dying stars
• on the verge of becoming black holes.
• You will watch the two men cast lots for your organs
• You will show the warmth of your teeth

  praying he remembers the heat of your supernov
• Don’t you remember me? you will ask.

  You gave a talk at my primary school.