On Living Alone by Giovanni Mangiante

they never teach you in school

that avocados

are engineered to self-destruct

in a matter of hours

when you're the one who's

paid for the damn things,

and you never truly grasp the idea

of how deplorable,

miserable, disgusting,

and unholy your lifestyle is

until a friend of yours shows up

uninvited to your place.

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Giovanni Mangiante (he/him) is a poet from Lima, Peru. His work appears in dozens of journals such as Three Rooms Press, Silver Birch Press, As It Ought to Be, Shot Glass Journal, FEARLESS, Synchronized Chaos, The Daily Drunk, and more. He has upcoming poems in The Piker Press and Studi Irlandesi. He lives with his dog, Lucy. In writing, he found a way to cope with BPD. Twitter: https://twitter.com/GioMangiante