there is a sting in the thing that urges you to call instead of textthat girl you met at godknowswhere when you were hungry in all the waysa girl new to the city unhoused and out of a job can beyou call because you have texted before double texted and in that chat, cricketsyoure lonelier than when you went to that new school and for a month could notfit into the already tight … [Read more...] about Friendship Fails, By: Phodiso Modirwa
Phodiso Modirwa
About Phodiso Modirwa
Phodiso is a writer and poet published in Guernica Magazine, Brittle Paper and Lolwe. Her chapbook Speaking In Code was selected by the African Poetry Book Fund for the New Generation African Poets box set, and she performed at the inauguration of Botswana's president Mokgweetsi Masisi. Her Poetry Catalog poem is "Friendship Fails."
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