About the Book
A boy who grew
through shears
Palaboy follows a young poet who keeps the people he loves at arm’s length for the sake of his art. As the years pass, circumstance denies him the very love he’s chasing — and after an excruciating loss, he begins to contemplate ending his life.
It is his old friend Veia who talks him back — who convinces him, against everything, that life is still worth living.
Prefaceassembled 2045events 2039–2041
The poem was assembled in 2045, gathering and translating events that unfolded between 2039 and 2041 — the Id set down first, the Ego arriving two decades later to explain it.
— from Part I —
I doubt fullness too much to here it:
I live in non-meety locations
While pain tarts me to poems—
My mother hugged me scars. I am Palaboy,
A boy who has grown through shears.
— Palaboy, Andy Bott