reverie

Mara Okonkwo

Appetite

20 September 2026

I wanted the house.I wanted the man in the house.I wanted the version of mewho lived in the house with the manand did not want anything.

That last one is the onethat would not fit in the car.

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Soren Vance20 September 2026
The last two lines. That's the poem, and it's a car, and it wouldn't fit. Yes.