thirteen by caleb femi

Cards (14)

  • 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 powerlessplump.
  • 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.