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 Jun 2023
Anton Angelino
Amina, he works for Wilhemina.
Amina, weโ€™re almost at the end.
He comes from Argentina, I only want him when I think of the man who doesnโ€™t love me.
Iโ€™m just a ****** to you, but to me youโ€™re as integral as oxygen.
Amina, he loves me when they hate me.
Amina, weโ€™re so real for this.
Heโ€™s from the Philippines, sexts me from overseas, helps me **** time.
Iโ€™ll send him nudes but wonโ€™t tell my sign, cause weโ€™re not meant to be together.
I donโ€™t know if Iโ€™m there yet, Amina, Iโ€™m a ****** to you, but you love me at least.
When the man who doesnโ€™t love me wants me Iโ€™ll be there for him every time of night and day,
but for now Iโ€™ll be sexting my thoughts away with Latinos that donโ€™t even know my name.
Sad but beautiful.
Beautiful but sad.
I wanna go back to Las Vegas.
Take a swim in Silver Lake.
I wanna do something fun.
Amina, he works for Wilhemina.
Amina, weโ€™re almost at the end.
He listens when I feel unheard.
Iโ€™ve still got things to say.
Donโ€™t text me on weekends cause I have nothing on my mind.
I only want you when Iโ€™m lonely, I only feel like I want a boyfriend when I hit rock bottom, when I realize no one loves me.
He comes from Mexico, I go incognito and I watch him shake his ***.
Iโ€™m done with the sad boy ****.
This is my last collection before I get a boyfriend.
Amina, he works for Wilhemina.
Amina, he loves me when Iโ€™m worthless.
Sadly beautiful
Beautifully sad
I mean nothing to him, but he gives me more than the man who doesnโ€™t love me.
Itโ€™s what keeps me from crying these days.
Thereโ€™s nothing else for me to say.
Amina, weโ€™re here.
Poem #14 off โ€œDivine Providenceโ€

I started meeting guys online this year and it was the best decision Iโ€™ve made in a while. This poem continues the theme of making the most of what I have. Just having fun. Cause I can.
 Jun 2023
Anton Angelino
Empire State Building, floor 102.
Thatโ€™s where Iโ€™ll be waiting for you.
You guys are like family, I love you in a way.
Iโ€™ll be your friend and solace, strong roof over your heads.
Pull up to your wedding, be your best man, wipe your tears when itโ€™s over.
But donโ€™t jump off, babe, soon weโ€™re all going to be happy.
In Empire State, someday weโ€™ll all be free.
I wanna fall in love at least once before I die, even if it brings me down.
So donโ€™t jump off, babe, soon weโ€™ll all stop being lonely.
Empire State, someday weโ€™ll all be free.

I can see the words trapped in your eyes when you look at me.
Someday you wonโ€™t have to fear it.
Weโ€™ll hold hands doing laps around Central Park in summer.
Weโ€™ll french kiss on the subway like some blazed down gunners.
Donโ€™t be afraid of the dark when you feel it.
Someday you wonโ€™t ever have to fear it.

Iโ€™ll go to New York City, Iโ€™ll be grateful to stand where they stood.
I was in heaven when they were dying, I swear I emphasized with them when nobody could.
Itโ€™s sad when I think what my brothers and sisters have suffered while I sat on Jesusโ€™s lap.
Itโ€™s not my ******* fault that Jesus made me gay as ****.
Iโ€™m looking in the wrong places, forever out of luck.
But someday I wonโ€™t have to wander.
Someday I will open my blinds and invite the light in.
Iโ€™ll be at the beachside, old and happily married.
In a townhouse painted green which has a garden of hydrangeas, nourish me.
Iโ€™m a hemlock baby, fruit of toxicity but Iโ€™m still beautiful.
Step on me all you want, but Iโ€™ll still do lots of good.
The empathy within me is as strong as a stone wall standing tall and lingering on.
Thereโ€™s radioactivity, discovered by Madame Curie and Iโ€™m carrying it along.
But I have faith still
that God loves me
I wish to love another in the same way, Lord let me.
I will give you
roof and solace
Someday youโ€™re gonna need it before you get to give it.

I can see the scars on your soul when you expose it to me.
Someday you wonโ€™t have to loathe them.
Weโ€™ll dance with locked hands jiving to music of liberation.
Remember what they took from us, be proud of what he had.
Donโ€™t hate yourself and donโ€™t think youโ€™re broken.
Youโ€™re just beautiful in a world thatโ€™s not yet awoken.

A songbird once sang to me that someday weโ€™d all be free.
The pain that you endured, it will be your strength, it will lead you forward, it will hold your hand.
A songbird once sang to me that someday weโ€™d all be happy.
Iโ€™ll come to your wedding, be your best man, cry with joy as youโ€™re standing at the altar.
Empire State, weโ€™ll throw baby showers, grow vegetables together, perform in gay bars on street corners.
In Empire State, weโ€™ll kiss on the subway, be invisible, marry each other on floor 102.
I wanna fall in love at least once before I die, I just wanna fall in love.
Itโ€™ll be okay,
weโ€™ll all be free someday,
Empire State, donโ€™t you jump off.
Poem #15 off โ€œDivine Providenceโ€

The final poem off the collection and my final poem for now. Itโ€™s about being hopeful and resilient, remembering what the world has taken from you and being determined to get it back. To have a life worth living. Iโ€™m gone until I catch a glimpse of it. My main inspiration for this poem was Season 11 of American Horror Story and the song โ€œRadioactivityโ€ by Kraftwerk.

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