I'm sorry, grandma by Giovanni Mangiante

back in 2014

I stayed a few nights

at my grandma's 

house.

I brought my laptop

and

slept on the couch.

after everyone

had gone

to bed

around midnight,

I began

my usual porn binge.

the next night

my grandma showed up

in the living room

a few minutes after

midnight.

she was wearing her

old lady pajamas

and had a roll

of toilet 

paper in her hand.

"here's paper in case

you need it" she said,

and left.

I stared at the wall

after she was gone

and let every

single

motherfucking demon

consume me.

Giovanni Mangiante is a poet from Lima, Peru. He has work published in Newington Blue Press, Rusty Truck, The Daily Drunk, Anti-Heroin Chic, Heroin Love Songs, Rat's Ass Review, Three Rooms Press, and more. In writing, he found a way to cope with BPD.