She was almost sixteen or so,
And clueless,
It was 10 pm in the night,
And I was lost in the CBD.

Somewhere around Haile Selassie,
She was new I could tell,
I wasn't,
I had been around long enough but not long enough to know the entire city,
Just,long enough,
To have eaten all its kales from sewer dumpsites and its Madness,
And its madness wasn't as delicious as those kales.
Promise.


I...