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Do you have the one
/ with that poem they read at the funeral
/ in that movie?…
Do you have the one
/ with that poem they read at the funeral
/ in that movie?…
Imagine that you are trying to balance on the surface of an expanding balloon.
They did not like
/ sunlight on your skin,
/
/ ordered you sit in the shade,
/ said: you are repellent
/
/ vile, they…
Tha mi tadhal air m’ athair’s mo mhàthair,
/ ‘s tha iad a’ cur fàilt’ orm,
/ ged nach robh dùil aca rium
/ ‘s ged…
In my disorder I shivered sweated, yawned
/ with fear and wrote some lines that went beyond
/ wit’s end…
A bloody good hiding
/ Another egg chipped
/ …
Revising my visa essay,
applying for three more years
here, I read my own scribbled words