FEELING 22
“To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to”~ Adam Phillips.
I want 22 to feel like taking my bra off after a long day
To feel like not wearing a bra
Or wearing a bra that feels like no bra
Bruh, you feel me?
I want 22 to feel like 21 coming home to itself
To unpack and readjust
To familiarise itself again with the smells,
the small pleasures and the large dullness of life.
I want 22 to find out what we gon’ do with all this junk
All this junk inside our trunk
To dip it low, pick it up slow
And pop, pop, pop that thing.
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I want 22 to contain multitudes
To be excessively diverted
To feel like riding a bike on a breezy day in a short dress
To not be easily defined.
I want 22 to feel like talking back
To interrupt the middle of their sentence with the beginning of mine
Did you admire 22 for her impertinence?
I want 22 to share it’s life with 22A
The self I have failed to be
The older self of my imagination that doesn’t fit
The older self that I actually become.
#goals
and if they ask,
I’ll tell them that time happened,
that i’m feeling 22.
