University of Toronto student chosen as Mississauga’s new Poet Laureate

Where I lived, unkempt boys grew up as gangs of soiled puddles

stationed according to desperations at every alley.

Only a few slept in parental sacs at night.

I, a naive boy in this stunting life, always knew that

if I were to be inside a sac, things could’ve been better

– An excerpt from A Poem, by Mississauga Youth Poet Laureate Ayomide Bayowa