Immigrant Blues by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0000000000000
Published: 2021-11-01T16:26:59+00:00

for Luna and Darije

I’d never been aware how beautiful my house is

until I saw it burning,

my schoolmate told me, who had twenty pieces of shrapnel

that remained deep under his skin after the war.

He wrote me how at the airport he enjoyed

having upset the customs officials who couldn’t understand

why the checkpoint metal detector howled for no reason.

I had never been aware I was a nation

until they said they’d kill me,

my friend told me,

who’d escaped from a prison camp

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