My Favorite Shape is a Circle

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My favourite My favourite shape is a circle shape is a circle

IZASKUN DÍAZ

I’m stuck between the people to my left and to my right. Squished by the crowd, they keep lifting me off the ground and there’s too many of them and I’m too skinny and weak to get hold of my feet and get them to stay where they were at the start. I can’t hear myself think in this house. Are the walls really that thin? I swear I had a million things to say about where people keep putting my fucking feet Taken off the ground on a plane then dropped on the concrete from high enough to sprain my ankle and too quick for me to even see where I am See if the sky is supposed to be blue then Why has it always been gray? If my skin is olive then why has it always looked birch? Do you understand? Because for you, skies are not intermittent and words aren’t anything that stands in your way. For you, words fall where you want them to. You lead the way and they build your path and you think about them like a fish thinks about water. But I had to notice when you were next to me swimming upstream that if you’re a salmon then I’m a frog And when I want to search for the words or the phrases or the adjectives i have to skim los verbos adverbios palabras I don’t know if they’re there aquí refrán redewendung disant and I haven’t even stood up yet. I haven’t even stepped outside I’ve been sitting here since you were by my side and there’s been hundreds of others and I’m still sitting where I have to start I continue to be surprised every time that my pillow can’t soak up all of the red and the sound when I scream in it. And if I break a line through my skin the pain concentrates organized controlled it stings and I’m always surprised that blood might be red when it finally leaks but the red in my head stays inside And there’s a million things that I try And for you, something always seems to work But I can’t make a move without breaking a glass with my heel or hitting a domino with the back of my hair or falling by accident down the stairs and nothing ever fits the way you want it to unless it’s a square but my favorite shape is a circle

Izaskun Diaz is a young Spanish girl living in an old German neighborhood. She thinks, dreams, and writes in English because she grew up outside of Spain. She has recently graduated from an international school in Hamburg. She is 18 years old, and plans to study English literature at university. Her passions are music, literature, and people.