Giovanni Mangiante is a poet from Lima, Peru. He has work published in Newington Blue Press, Rusty Truck, The Daily Drunk, Anti-Heroin Chic, Heroin Love Songs, Rat's Ass Review, Three Rooms Press, and more. He has upcoming poems in The Piker Press. In writing, he found a way to cope with BPD.

Giovanni Mangiante

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5 years of fight

wrestling
with
the end of my life,
I found
my father
holding
onto fiery
reigns,
scorching
but unfazed,
still
believing
his son
had
a
chance.