By Tyler Mitchell

When I was 10, My elementary asked us who we would vote for.

I told my 10-year-old friend, this guy started the war!

He tipped his 10-year-old chin at me and said, he’s going to end it!

And that was enough for 10-year-old me.

I wish I could tell you who won that ballot,

but I only remember recess

and playing the greatest game of basketball I ever played.

And it was close, and we both left the same...

Zero dollars...and zero cents.

Losing count of everyone who lost that day.


Our fellow ploys

hit

like a fuckin rock.

W picked the sun apart,

Disarmed the firework’s dark.

were young enough to believe

the bomb never knew who would win.