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.
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