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big boys/ eating worms and shouting words you don't understand

My parents' anxiety stirred like a loose tooth

I want our own country

But

swallow a slug

a skelf of shame

tongue shedding its skin like a snake, my voice in the classroom sounding just like the rest

Do I only think /I lost a river, culture, speech, sense of first space /and the right place?

I only

Where do you come from? /strangers ask. Originally? And I hesitate.