Tuesday, August 24, 2021

The hero by DS Maolalai

a minor crush
on the girl 
who works in our newsagent,
but I still
just buy the condoms
and resist 
inappropriate jokes.




DS Maolalai has been nominated eight times for Best of the Net and five times for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in two collections, "Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden" (Encircle Press, 2016) and "Sad Havoc Among the Birds" (Turas Press, 2019)


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