GAME NIGHT AT THE FIFTH HOUSE by Victoria Mbabazi

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Victoria Mbabazi

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The Kollection · Game Night At The Fifth House - Victoria Mbabazi

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GAME NIGHT AT THE FIFTH HOUSE

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Do you want me

to put the poison in the wine I’m drinking

or in the beer you’ll drink later?

Are you still mad at me?

If an Apple dies as a tree

falls into an ocean

Are you still staying the night?

Do you want to leave me?

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I love party games

Mafia is my favourite

You are good at killing

loving is better

familiar and fatal

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I am good at knowing

the mood of a door

when it closes

If the tap is crying

when it doesn’t shut

all the way off I am good

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at engulfing my space

the couch is capable of breathing

and it keeps breaking its legs

I can be good I promise

I am great at becoming

whatever you want me to be

Give me a second give me time

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Let me show you I promise

I can walk back into that burning target

and remember all the things

you wanted from the store

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Credits

Victoria’s work can be found in The Puritan, CV2, No Contact, Rejection Letters, Untethered Magazine, Grain, Minola Review, Peach Magazine, Maisonneuve, and elsewhere. Their poem “Medusa Smile” placed second in The Hart House Review contest and their work has been shortlisted in Plenitude’s Flash Fiction contest and long-listed in Room’s Poetry contest. They have two Best of The Net nominations. They have two chapbook collections “chapbook” (Anstruther Press, 2021) and “FLIP” (Knife Fork Books, 2022). Both are sold out. Though, their first full length poetry collection “The Siren in the Twelfth House” (Palimpsest press, 2024) is available where books are sold. They’re currently Canadian in Brooklyn, New York.

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GAME NIGHT AT THE FIFTH HOUSE by Victoria Mbabazi

GAME NIGHT AT THE FIFTH HOUSE

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