at huicho

If you don’t believe in god,
what’s your higher power?
Or do you have one?
If not, I don’t really know, you said, I just don’t know.

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The kids behind us watch their touchscreens and
cheer when their heaping tacoed plates appear.
How gross it feels to be jealous of joy.

**

I don’t know how I answered you.
I don’t really know. I really don’t. I just don’t know.