Freerider

Avery Loftis | Spring 2023

Emotional freerider
An ingenue, to you
Chipped nail polish
Smudged glasses

Racing up staircases
Step sprintnearly slip
Spilt tea on a white t-shirt
What else

“He rides and he rides”
Step step step pause
Peddle peddle pause

Pause, your move, pause

Pause
To own each Breath
Less, like Jean-Luc
Gasping through internal wars

Emotional freerider
Infernal inconnu
Trimmed bangs
Purple pens
Public paperbacks

Eavesdropping as a hobby
…There’s more

The unasked
left
Unanswered