Eniola Anuoluwapo Soyemi

Eniola Anuoluwapo Soyemi is a Ph.D. candidate in political philosophy at Boston University currently carrying out field research in Lagos, Nigeria. When she is not doing academic work, or writing poems. She runs and edits a politics blog at www.politicalmatter.org.

Nothing

The soft sound of water spraying onto
Ceramic tile
Words that don’t exist stick
In the back of the
Tongue

I rest my head against a stool imagining
Weightless property,
Move me;
Sideways.

Serotonin and glial cells
Holding up mass…

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