my body likes to lie

in long rectangular shapes

like six feet

like small bathrooms

with brown tiles closing in

my body likes to sink

in between tiny spaces

buckets filled with water

are a calling:

Come, dear

Let us see how deep

You can swim.

Sharon Onyinyechukwu Okey-Onyema is a student in the Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She thinks movies are painstaking to keep up with and simply existing is enough purpose for life.